Having recently run out of national gardening magazines to keep myself entertained, I went trolling the magazine racks for some foreign gardening/lifestyle/design eye candy. And what to my wandering eye should appear? But the latest issue of Canadian House and Home. Alrighty, and a half dozen other pubs: French, English, Australian….
Toward the end of the mag, they have a one page article about the movie/documentary/whatever titled Grey Gardens. Dear and Gentle Reader, I must tell you, I have rented this twice in the last year, watched as much as I could, started skipping around, and couldn’t finish it either time. Those women are weird. Maybe it’s just a touch too close, you know like, you can never go back home?
The magazine reports the movie -and more recently- a Broadway musical, to be “moving, hilarious and often unsettling.” Yes, I would call it unsettling like, say, Jack Nicholson’s lobotomy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Or, like, watching a train wreck. Maybe I just need to get a little likkered up and give it a whirl. Guess I will try it one more time.
Meanwhile, for those of you with stronger constitutions/a better sense of humor/a dark-and-twisted side, check it out. Report back. Maybe I am just a wimp. I couldn’t sit through Clockwork Orange in 1973. Still don’t like the Wizard of Oz and the flying monkeys. And hated it, just HATED it, when Lassie went missing for two episodes.
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1 Carol // Apr 19, 2007 at 4:00 am
I saw some of that movie a month or so ago. I also could not watch it to the end. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I just stared in disbelief and could not figure out why someone filmed all that and how they lived. Did you do some “googling” on it? They were an aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
Once was enough for me. I won’t try to watch it until the end. Though how did it end? How could it end? And why did someone make a musical out of it? I wonder what that is like to watch?
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