Release date for HBO's Grey Gardens: November 7, 2008?

A release date now appears on the Internet Movie Database for the upcoming Grey Gardens film with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore.

From IMDb

Release dates for Grey Gardens (2008)

USA    7 November 2008

If anyone out there has more info about this, please send it in!

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Lois Wright painting of Edie Beale on display, starting this Saturday

Too bad there's no photo to accompany this news notice!

From Grey Gardens Yahoo group, by Libra Man, on 15 March 2008

Lois Wright’s Art On Display

Two paintings by Lois Wright will be featured in the 70th Annual Artist Members Exhibition at Guild Hall in East Hampton. One of the paintings is Grey Gardens themed: "Staunch Edie Beale with Two Cats". The show runs from March 29 to April 26, and the opening reception is Saturday, March 29 from 4 to 6 p.m.

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Jessica Lange talks about being Big Edie

Jessica's quite candid and lovely here, and I am very curious to see her performance!

From Los Angeles Times, by Choire Sicha, on 23 March 2008

Sunday conversation with Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange just completed shooting on "Grey Gardens," the forthcoming fictional film version of the film documentary about the mother-daughter duo who went from being American aristocracy to crazy cat ladies living in a falling-down Hamptons house. It was also recently made into a musical. (Got that?) She costars with Drew Barrymore; her longtime partner is Sam Shepard, and she lives in New York.

When do you get anonymity?

Well, most of the time... When you haven't been in the press for a while, you don't have a film out there -- yeah, I can go down the street forever and ever and they don't know who I am. Which is great! But you know, New York is cool that way, they'll say "hi" like they know you, or "Hey, haven't seen you in a while; what are you doing?" I love that about New York.

You finished shooting on "Grey Gardens." I'm completely freaked out! How's it gonna be?

I don't know how it's going to be! It was the greatest experience I've had in so long, I can't even tell you. It was thrilling work. One, because the age range of the character -- Drew had the same range, I play Big Edie, she plays Little Edie -- but we cover a 40-year period in their lives. I go from 39 to 79. The story starts with the impression of the documentary of them in their later years. Them living in this crazy squalor, and this wildly eccentric relationship.

But then we go back 40 years. So you also see them in their heyday, at the height of New York society. And it tracks them not continually, but it jumps like a decade, then another decade. So you see this progression of them going from A to Z.

What I did is, I had this marvelous reference, the Maysles brothers documentary, what she was like then. And then I got to imagine that woman 10 years earlier, 20 years earlier, 30 years earlier. A wonderful exercise as an actor. And I had to sing and dance. And wearing four hours' worth of prosthetic makeup, and acting like I'm 79 years old -- and finding her voice and her crazy mannerisms. It was a big, big part. A big job.

How many times did you watch the documentary?

I can't even tell you. I was so familiar with it before the project even came my way. Once I knew that I was going to play the part I watched it many times. When I was shooting I would watch bits and pieces of it every day. It was my morning exercise. Just to hear her voice. Or to see her, then it would center me in the character, even if I was playing her as a young woman. Yeah, I make corn in the movie.

Had you ever met Drew Barrymore before?

No. Not until we determined to do this together. She's great in it.

She better be.

She is! She's fearless, and she is great.

How near are Frances Farmer and Edie Bouvier Beale? [Lange played Frances Farmer in 1982's "Frances."]

I would say they were both survivors. That would seem like an odd quality to choose, because Frances didn't survive all that well. But the powers that be overwhelmed her. But she had tremendous spirit, and I think the same is true with Edie Beale. For Frances to live through what she did and have a life past all of that? And she did. I think that speaks well of her...

What was that set like? 'Frances' was directed by an editor [Graeme Clifford].

Yeah, he had edited ["The Postman Always Rings Twice"]. And that's how we came to work together on "Frances." Who knows your work better than the editor? And he came to me and asked if I wanted to be Frances.

And off you went! It sounds so easy.

Obviously it wasn't an easy shoot.

How dark did that get?

Well, I got dark... I had fallen into a deep well, trying to get to the bottom of this character. But that's just, you know. Some characters stay with you more than others. Some characters are really haunting, some you shed quickly. Frances is a haunting character.

Did you do yourself any permanent damage?

Well, I don't know, it could have! I can't honestly speak to that. I don't know if it has, maybe it has.

When did you pick up a camera?

I had been interested in photography a long, long time ago. And I got sidetracked with many other things. Life, traveling, youth. And then falling into acting. So I only picked up a camera about 15 years ago for the first time again. And Sam had gotten me this great little Leica, and my kids were growing, and I thought, "This is great, I'll just start taking pictures of them." And I starting shooting black and white and built myself a darkroom. And it just kept expanding, and now I'm going to have a book published. Which is such a dream come true for me!

You're so fancy.

No, I'm thrilled. So it'll be a book that'll come out in October. Of all my -- not all -- but my black and white photographs.

And you get to spend quiet evenings in the darkroom.

I loved it. It was quiet. I was in there all by myself, listening to Sam Cooke, printing pictures. The most exciting thing was that moment you exposed it: the paper, the developer and you're leaning over the tray and watching this image come up. It used to give me goose bumps sometimes when it was really good. You thought... I did that, I can really do something.

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Memorabealeia book now available on Amazon.com

There had been some uncertainty about when it would be available at other retailers, but now the Memorabealeia book is for sale at Amazon.com.

MemoraBEALEeia
by Walter Newkirk

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Drew Barrymore channels Little Edie Beale of Grey Gardens... and so does her office

There's something deliciously "Edie Beale"--an avid collector--about the office of Drew Barrymore--who is also an avid collector!

Where did this little book come from?

From Domino Magazine, by Stewart Shining, on April 2008

House Tours

Drew Barrymore

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Memorabealeia book now available for purchase

This just in! At long last... it's available!

By Walter Newkirk, on 17 March 2008

memoraBEALEia is now available for purchase

The book is now available for purchase on authorhouse.com for $25 plus shipping

I haven't seen a bound copy yet myself!

I have been told it by authorhouse that it will be available within the next 1-2-3 weeks on amazon.com for $37 ....they might discount it though - i don't know

i believe the shipping may be free on amazon - again I am not sure

feel free to wait and comparison shop!

The book can also be ordered through bookstores nationwide...

Please see the link below

If you have any questions, please email me @ newkirkpr@aol.com

I hope you enjoy the book -

Thanks very much for your interest!

Walter
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~51678.aspx

Update

The book is now available for purchase at Amazon.

A Maysles Scrapbook is shipping

Yes, A Maysles Scrapbook is shipping! Mine arrived just today, from an order I had placed on Amazon.com.

A Maysles Scrapbook: Photographs/Cinemagraphs/Documents
by Steven Kasher, Michael Chaiken, and Albert Maysles

How to get the Maysles Scrapbook

According to the Amazon.com listing for A Maysles Scrapbook, the book's release date isn't known. However, the listing at Amazon.co.uk has the book shipping within 4 to 8 days:

A Maysles Scrapbook: Photographs/Cinemagraphs/Documents
by Steven Kasher, Michael Chaiken, and Albert Maysles

And, apparently they are also available from the Steven Kasher Gallery in NYC.

From Grey Gardens Yahoo! group, by Beau, on 6 March 2008

Maysles Scrapbook Available

Just to let everyone know... Al Maysles did sign extra copies of "The Maysles Scrapbook" at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York.

If you are like me, and collect signed first editions, you may want to order a book directly from the gallery. They are the same price as the standard (unsigned) edition.

The phone number is (212) 966-3978.

Jeanne Tripplehorn on playing Jackie, and on Drew as Edie

A nice little interview from Page Six. Jeanne has some very things things to say about Drew, and, interestingly, it says that the film will hit theaters!

From Page Six, by Matt Donnelly, on 6 March 2008

Jeanne Does Jackie O.

While Drew Barrymore's saddle-up to play Edith Beale may have matured her, we doubt it's any more stressful than playing an icon like Jackie O. Just ask Jeanne Tripplehorn, the Big Love lady with that very daunting task in Drew's forthcoming Grey Gardens.

PageSix.com ran into Jeanne at GQ.com's Steve Alan boutique launch in West Hollywood last night, where she dished on becoming the First Lady.

"The research was heaven. I was just soaking in it... to get in depth with her dialect and to be able to read and soak her up. She's such a well-deserved icon," Jeanne said.

And can we expect a pillbox hat and pink Chanel?

"No, this is Onassis. It's a very Hamptons Jackie," said Jeanne. Bring on the Pucci!

Jeanne, 44, joins Drew and Jessica Lange in the film adapted from the 1975 classic documentary about Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, "Little Edie," cousins of Jackie who took up hermit-like residence in a mansion in East Hampton, NY.

On Drew's transition from bubbly rom-coms to more sad and serious fair, Jeanne says, "Drew, to say she was committed is an understatement. She left Drew and entered Edie."

Gardens will hit theaters in late 2008.

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Grey Gardens internship at Maysles Films

Sounds like an interesting opportunity! Unfortunately, it's unpaid.

From Grey Gardens Yahoo! group, by Lisa, on 6 March 2008

Grey Gardens Internship

APPLICATION: Deadline ASAP

Artist Rebekah Maysles and her sister Sara Maysles, the co-editor of A Maysles Scrapbook, are currently producing a book about the film Grey Gardens and its participants. It is an eclectic act of love, a mix of old archival materials, new text and illustrations. They are seeking an experienced intern to assist in the production, for -at the minimum- two days a week, but up to four if possible. The internship would last until the end of this June.

The intern's tasks will include taking notes on sound from out-takes, transcribing, scanning negatives and photos, and research. They should be responsible, organized, punctual, and neat. We need a calm, careful assistant as a lot of the tasks are repetitive and time consuming and many of the materials are delicate and one-of-a-kind. The intern would ideally have strong writing skills, experience with transcribing and editing interviews/film (experience in sound editing in particular, i.e., radio, would be fantastic). Archival experience and knowledge of Photoshop and InDesign are a plus. And of course, above all, the intern would be someone with a love, appreciation and compassion for the Beales, the Maysles brothers, and the original documentary, Grey Gardens.

This is an unpaid internship, but offers a unique opportunity to work with unreleased material, and if the contribution of the intern is significant, they will gain a prominent acknowledgment in the book.

To apply fax or email the following, attention Rebekah Maysles:
rebekah@mayslesfilms.com
fax (212) 586-2057

• Completed application (enclosed)

• Cover letter, in the form of a personal statement of no more than 500 words, explaining why you would like to take this internship position, and letting us know something about yourself- your interests, concerns, and ideas.

• Include a brief sample of your writing. (i.e. an article, research project, short essay or short story)

• Resume

• Names and phone numbers of at least two references

Incomplete applications will not be accepted. Interviews for finalists will be set up after the above materials have been received and evaluated. Please, no inquiries via phone or email.

Assignment:

1. Within half a page please discuss your relationship with the film Grey Gardens, and what it means to you.

2. Conduct a short research project (no more than a page) on little Edie's debutante ballad remember we are looking for specific visual cues from the time of the event as well as interesting tidbits. Please explain how you conducted the research. For living sources you might wish to contact, you can simply list who, how, and why they are relevant. (Refrain from actually contacting potential sources.)

note if you come across a human lead please refrain from contacting them but list who and how you would contact them.

3. How familiar are you with Mac 0s X? What programs are you familiar with (be as honest as possible).

4. Write two short paragraphs, one describing any research and/or production experience you may have, the other detailing your organizational skills. Use specific examples from your experience to demonstrate your ability to engage with this work and meet deadlines.

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