Grey Gardens The Movie - pics!

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:15pm

FIRST DAY OF SHOOTING - and all they can talk about is Drew's cellulite

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:19pm

People are morons. She's gorgeous. And most of them are probably fat themselves. She prob gained weight for the role, but if not, good for her.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:20pm

I think she looks great!

Such a beautiful woman, and I think she looks perfect for the role.

I'm really hoping she pulls this off!

[ahmelie]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:30pm

This picture is beautiful and perfect. It makes me want to see this even more.

[Clara's Pony]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:31pm

Do we know when it will be released?

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:33pm

I think she looks stunning.

[jv92]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:50pm

Now this is her as Little Edie in earlier days, right?

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 7:57pm

From those "in the know," it is apparently those pesky missing years from the musical.

Post Act I, and Pre-Act II.

That's when this film takes place. (During intermission! )

In other words... It's how they got from "A" to "B." Could be very fascinating, and a nice companion piece to both the musical and the documentary. They all seem poised to complement each other nicely.

...as long as it's good, damn it! But Drew's got the look DOWN.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 8:07pm

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 8:20pm

Check out picture #2 for a great hair comparison...

http://greygardensthemusical.com/nytimesedie/nytimesedie.html

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 8:28pm

I wasn't looking forwardto this at all, but I like the pictures and, if you're right, best12, it could be an interesting movie.

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 8:32pm

This film will cover those "missing" years. It will also go beyond the documentary/musical time frame. The bit I'm anticipating most is a scene of the nightclub act Edie did at Reno Sweeneys after her mother died.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 10:21pm

I didn't think I would buy Drew Barrymore in this film at all (I was pulling for Toni Collette), but those pictures look astonishing and she seems to capture the air of Little Edie. Hope it's a good film.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 10:56pm

Once again...I hope the few out there ARE aware this is not a musical nor based on the recent Broadway musical, right?

One's gotta ask these days, y'know.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 11:03pm

Drew looks great, and it's a role that Lange can obviously nail, but I'm still worried about Drew's acting chops. Furthermore, Little Edie did not have a pronounced lisp (or any lisp at all, for that matter.)

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 11:11pm

Hmmm...maybe I'll head down to Centre Island tomorrow and take a looksee.

Akiva

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 10/23/07 at 11:16pm

Furthermore, Little Edie did not have a pronounced lisp (or any lisp at all, for that matter.)

Maybe that will finally give her reason to be taught to speak without it. I mean, I know it's kind of her trademark, but if it affects the character she needs to learn when to use it and when to lose it.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 12:13am

I don't think a speech impediment that one has been carrying around for 30+ years can just disappear when you want it to.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 12:20am

I didn't say it could.

You have to go through speech therapy. Something she should have done long ago.

Not that her lisp is something she should be ashamed of. But, as an actress, she should train herself to know how to control it.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 12:22am

The show would have been so much more successful if it opened after the movie.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 6:26am

Get back to us when you manage to pull that stick out from deep inside your ass.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 8:39am

Lisp--schmisp.

I'm wondering if Drew can pull of Little Edie's decidedly "chewy" accent.

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 8:50am

I'm interested to see if her accent evolves throughout the movie, rather than starting out chewy. I'd love to see it shift from Park Ave socialite who summers in the Hamptons and schools in CT to that really twisted version that 30 years of isolation can bring.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 9:03am

Are we sure Little Edie didn't talk that way to start with?

Most people don't suddenly develop accents halfway through their life.

...except maybe Madonna.

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 10:32am

I think it's common to take on the accent of a new environment. Ten years in San Diego drastically morphed my Rhode Island accent into something new and different. Being back in RI for fifteen years has morphed it again into something even stranger.

I don't know of any recordings of Edie as a young girl but she grew up on Park Ave, not Long Island. I'd guess that she had a much more refined finishing school accent, probably closer to Jackie and Lee's, that became mixed with that distinct Long Island accent. I'm just supposing. Bit I can't imagine her speaking that way at Miss Porter's school and getting away with it.

There is one thing I find very interesting about the way Edie and her mother speak. Everything is described in absolute terms. Everything is "completely wonderful" or "completely awful" or "absolutely brilliant" or "entirely wrong." It's all extreme black or extreme white, nothing is just okay or a little annoying. It's either a disaster or it's the best.

I wonder if that's a class thing,where everything had to be perfect or it was unacceptable, which is ironic considering the conditions they lived in. Or is it just the particular penchant these two had for high drama.