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Maysles Brothers's Grey Gardens...
Black Jack Bouvier moved into Grey Gardens in between the wars with his wife, his sister Edith and her husband, a lawyer. Then came the Wall Street crash and the Bouvier fortune was smashed. The Bouviers moved out and Edith's husband ran off, leaving her as the sole mistress of the mansion. Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier were brought up there with Edie, who at the time outshone them both--her prospects seemed boundless. But things reversed themselves. Jackie went off to marry Jack Kennedy, Lee became a princess, and Edie was left behind, never quite able to break away...
...other. Edith, nearing the end of her days, reviews her life with contentment. "I had my cake, loved it, masticated and chewed it," she tells us. "I had everything I wanted. I had a very, very happy, satisfying life." Her daughter is profoundly embittered, looking upon her time at Grey Gardens as a waste, hating it, but incapable of leaving, and holding her mother responsible for her disappointments...
...recently deceased mother. Lois has since moved in with Edie and Edith. Froemke reports that Edith seems to be reproducing her relationship with her mother in her relationship with Lois the same strains, the same resentments, are appearing. Now Edie complains that Lois is keeping her at Grey Gardens. If our chains didn't exist, we would have to invent them...
While the district is all white, it is not the whiter shade of pale reflected in the gracious homes of Shaker Heights. The 20th's whiteness is tinged with the dirty grey of Cleveland's heavily industrialized flats; the Cuyahoga River, which cuts across the district, caught on fire several years ago because it was so heavily polluted with industrial waste. The population of this lower-middle-class urban stretch is predominantly of eastern European ancestry--Polish, German, Czech, Hungarian, plus some Irish and Italians--and roughly 75 per cent Catholic...