The house on Lily Pond Lane as seen in the documentary “Grey Gardens”
A historic house on Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton was destroyed by fire at midday on Saturday, February 9th.
Built in 1905 for Edward T. Cockcroft, the hose was designed by Harrie T. Lindberg and garnered much attention, appearing on the cover of House and Garden. “According to “Hampton’s Heritage: An Illustrated Architectural Record,” Lindberg designed four houses on Lily Pond Lane using a roof technique that became his trademark.
In the March 2008 issue of Vogue, Drew Barrymore says she found the role of a lifetime portraying ‚Äö?Ñ??Little Edie‚Äö?Ñ?? Bouvier Beale in HBO’s upcoming production, “Grey Gardens”.
‚Äö?Ñ??Something about learning you can live without everything changes you. All my life, I‚Äö?Ñ?¥ve been waiting and waiting to become a woman, but I always felt like a little girl.
Edie did too, but I think she might have been the thing that made me finally become a woman. I thought for sure it would be a relationship with another human being, a love. Little did I know, it would be a posthumous relationship with… Edith Beale.‚Äö?Ñ??
Jeanne Tripplehorn (”Big Love”, “Basic Instinct”) has been cast as Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Drew Barrymore and HBO’s “Grey Gardens” project.
Barrymore and Jessica Lange star as “Little Edie” and “Big Edie,” the respective aunt and cousin of Onassis, who made headlines when the health department threatened to raid their flea and raccoon-infested estate in East Hampton, N.Y.
Tripplehorn will be joining Daniel Baldwin, who plays Julius Krug, the former secretary of the interior and secret true love of Little Edie; Ken Howard (”Cane”) as Big Edie’s husband; Malcolm Gets (”Caroline in the City”) as Big Edie’s accompanist; and Arye Gross (”The Practice”) as documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles.
Michael Sucsy is directing the project, currently shooting in Toronto. Source: Reuters
Above is the first picture of the “Sex and the City” movie, which began shooting this week on the streets on NYC. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon will all be reprising their popular characters for the big-screen version of the hit HBO series.
After sitting through the three-hour long Tony Awards ceremonies tonight, I ended up feeling rather disappointed that my favorite new musical, “Grey Gardens”, only walked away with three wins out of the 10 nominations it received. Disappointed, but happy for “Garden’s” two leading ladies, Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson, both of whom took home the much coveted statuette for best actress and best featured actress in a musical, respectively, for their portrayals of eccentric mother and daughter socialites, Edith Bouvier Beale and “Little” Edie Beale.
The night clearly belonged to the coming-of-age alt-rock musical “Spring Awakening,” which all but swept every major category, winning eight awards including best musical of the year. I’ve yet to see “Spring Awakening,” so I can’t comment on weather it deserved to thumb up it’s nose at the rest of the night’s competition or not, but in what previews I’ve seen, the show struck me as being somewhat reminiscent of “Rent,” a production which in my opinion, failed to live up to all the hype it generated. Musicals such as this are part of a trend which I refer to as “New Broadway,” meaning the production is geared more towards iPod enthusiasts and vacationing tourists than to the avid New York theatergoer. For all intents and purposes, I prefer theatre in the more traditional sense, minus an MTV video.
In any event, congratulations go out to Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson and the entire company of “Grey Gardens” for their well deserved win. I’m due for another visit with the Beales and “Grey Gardens” very soon.
After enjoying an extended, sold out run off-Broadway at the Playwrights Horizon theatre, Grey Gardens, the critically acclaimed musical about real life mother and daughter eccentrics Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier, transfers to the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway this fall.
Previews begin Tuesday, October 3rd 2006 with regular performances commencing on Thursday, November 2nd 2006. Original cast members Christine Ebersole and Mary-Louise Wilson will once again reprise their much-lauded performances as Little Edie and Big Edie Bouvier Beale.
If you get the chance to see “Grey Gardens,” run, don’t walk to see it. I can’t recommend this show highly enough, it is undoubtedly one of the best productions to hit the New York stage in quite some time. The performances, particularly by Ebersole and Wilson, are nothing short of amazing.
Page Six reports Lee Radziwill “bolted” out of Tuesday’s night’s opening preview of “Grey Gardens” after the first act, when she “witnessed a little girl onstage playing a pre-pubescent version of herself, singing a song called “Being Bouvier” and expressing a wish to someday marry a prince.”
Among the audience members who attended the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of the Maysles Brothers 1975 documenatry of the same name, were fabled journalist Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn, who bought the historic East Hampton estate 25 years ago.
Also there was Albert Maysles himself, who along with his brother David Maysles, made the now cult classic documentary about the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
