book about Jackie Kennedy's eccentric relatives
Dates: 3/15/02,1:30 PM through 3/15/02,3:45 PM (3 postings)
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FROM: Cherie L <[removed]@pcl.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 3/15/02, 1:30 PM
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/15/02, 2:21 PM
It's "Grey Gardens" (with "e" spelling rather than "a"). See for
instance the following for a description of the movie based on
their lives. But I don't know of a book....
http://dvdmg.com/greygardens.shtml
<snip>
The Kennedy women were also bigger than life with Jackie, Ethel, Joan and
Caroline the most notable and famous among
them. One thing they all had in common was their background of privilege,
money and power. However, as big as the clan may
be and as far reaching as their influence may have extended, there were
two left behind. To be precise, Mrs. Edith Beale and
her daughter Edie Beale, or as they became known as Bog Edie and Little
Edie, were not born into the Kennedy family and
therefore were not blood relations. However, Mrs. Edith Beale’s maiden
name was Bouvier and she was the sister of the mother
of perhaps the most glamorous woman of our lifetime.
Yes, Big Edie and Little Edie were the aunt and first cousin of
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The documentary film Grey
Gardens takes us inside the highly peculiar life of these two women, both
of which occupied a desolate, rat-infested, cockroach
laden, rundown mansion in the tony enclave known as East Hampton. The
name Grey Gardens is a witticism thought up by the
local gentry and the press to describe the squalid property with its
dead, gray-colored foliage.
Albert and David Maysles shot the documentary, which also includes
footage taken by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. The
Maysles Brothers achieved fame and notoriety for their previous
documentary Gimme Shelter (the fateful Rolling Stones
concert at Altamont). They are described as portraitists rather than
interviewers because they employ a unique style of
filmmaking when it comes to covering their subjects. The brothers are
rarely seen or heard either on camera or off camera and
prefer to let their subjects be seen without prompts or questions or
cues. This can be disconcerting for the viewer at times since
valuable minutes are taken up by watching someone walk around their
premises without the benefit of conversation. However, in
this case, the idea was to illustrate just how these women lived despite
their bloodline relationship to American royalty.
<snip>
See also (among many other sites)
http://www.greygardens.com/
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: Rowena <[removed]@lori.state.ri.us>
REC'D: 3/15/02, 3:45 PM
Rowena
At 12:17 PM 3/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi everyone, I'm new here & hoping you can help me out. I've had a request
>from a patron for a non-fiction book written 2-3 years ago about two
>eccentric women relatives of Jackie Kennedy's who lived together in a
>ramshackle mansion. She thought the title was "Gray Gardens" but I can't
>find anything under that title. Apparently there was national TV coverage
>when the last woman died some months ago. Does this ring a bell with
>anyone? Thanks in advance-
>
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