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“Grey Gardens” Blooms Anew

15 April 2009 5:47 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news

In an ideal world, everyone will come to HBO’s new feature film Grey Gardens, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, having already seen the landmark 1975 documentary of the same name. But even if this is your first exposure to Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter “Little” Edie, you’ll come away besotted with the tragicomic tale of these two roses of American aristocracy who withered on the vine. (And then you’ll run out and immediately rent the doc.)

The film begins in 1975, with Edith (Lange) and Edie (Barrymore) sitting in their moldering East Hamptons manse Grey Gardens, watching an early cut of the documentary by Albert (Arye Gross) and David Maysles (Justin Louis) that would make them legends. Cut to 1936, when 18-year-old Edie is having cold feet on the night on her debutante ball at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.

Edie wants to be a singer and an actress,

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