Edie, Meet Edie

This new movie is based on a CLASSIC Seventies documentary of Jackie O's first cousin. You should see it. It's called "Grey Gardens". This batty mother and her batty mother live in a crumbling old mansion with no electricity. They constantly talk about the “good old days” and the daughter even feeds the raccoons that live in their attic.

A lot of the documentary and the musical's fans are on an uproar in casting Drew Barrymore as Little Edie Beale. Little Edie was 57 when the Health Department thing went down in 1974/75, the documentary that introduced us to the eccentricities of Little Edie was made in 1976 (she died at age 80 in 2002), Big Edie was 80-ish (Jessica is how old?). The hit Broadway play Grey Gardens had actress’s who were close to those ages play those ages…Unless they are doing a totally new angle where each character is MUCH younger, like 20 years before Grey Gardens…otherwise, Drew is TOO young and not skilled enough to pull off Little Edie’s accent and her mannerisms..I mean Little Edie was NUTS, I don’t see Drew being able to pull her nuerotic, paranoid and child-like ticks off. She could barely do an english accent in that Cinderella thing she did..”just breath”…oh whatever…love Drew though.

If you haven’t seen Grey Gardens or the follow up to it (the doco that shows all of Little Edies ripped and torn up creations plus more of the poor house that was barely standing) PLEASE rent it, absolutely amazing.