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Victorian attitudes to children were famously forbidding. That might partly explain why London's Museum of Childhood is little heard of by most visitors to the capital. Then there's the building itself-a red-brick and iron shed, an unloved remnant of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington that in 1872 was rebuilt in Bethnal Green as a cultural outpost for the museum's overspill, particularly its collection of dolls and children's costumes...
...hour and a half, the trusted TV anchors fielded a spectacular special report: They cut to live footage from the Royal Palace, where an emotional crowd had gathered to protest for the survival of their country. A reporter in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, commented on rumors that King Albert II had fled to the former Belgian colony. A crowd waved Flemish flags behind the live reporter at the Flemish Parliament. The ring road around the capital, Brussels, was blocked, NATO headquarters on red alert, and police controls thrown up along the border between Flemish-speaking and French-speaking regions...
...were famously forbidding. That might partly explain why London's Museum of Childhood is little heard of by most visitors to the capital. Then there's the building itself - a red-brick and iron shed, an unloved[an error occurred while processing this directive] remnant of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington that in 1872 was rebuilt in Bethnal Green as a cultural outpost for the museum's overspill, particularly its collection of dolls and children's costumes. Some of the gloom and an aura of worthiness persisted even after its rebirth as the Museum of Childhood...
...Beales had already been the subject of a 1972 New York magazine cover story by Gail Sheehy when the Maysles brothers got to them a year later. By then, Albert and David had pretty much patented the branch of documentary known as showbiz v?rit?. Showman, a profile of movie distributor Joe Levine (1963), What's Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964), A Visit With Truman Capote (1966), Meet Marlon Brando (1966) and the Rolling Stones' Altamont debacle Gimme Shelter (1970) all demonstrated v?rit?'s affinity for performers. A form of documentary that plants a two-person film crew (camera...
...true; it only has to compel the viewer to keep watching. Anyway, the lies or evasions people bring to explanations of their lives can be as revealing of their real personalities (if there are such things) as the truth (if that even exists). And in Edith and Edie Beale, Albert and David found a mother-daughter act eager to act out their lifelong psychodrama. As Edie, who was 56 when the movie was shot, confides to the brothers about her dreams of nightclub stardom and her altruistic imprisonment tending for her mother in Grey Gardens, Edith, then nearing 80, insisted...