The new tenants of Grey Gardens have moved in!

Boykin Curry, who now rents Grey Gardens, hosted a part for his brother Marshall's documentary, Racing Dreams. Some pictures from the event are now on the web. Although Boykin's wife is an interior designer, the interiors of Grey Gardens appear not to have changed at all since Frances Hayward's residency.

From IndieWire, by Brian Brooks, on October 11, 2009

Celebrating “Dreams” at Grey Gardens

Later at Grey Gardens, the film’s executive producer, Jack Turner of film company White Buffalo, only gave a hint at how they scored Grey Gardens for their party. I mean, I’ve been going to the Hamptons Film Festival for eight years now, and I only knew the place still existed but didn’t know where, and to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a festival party there.

“We were able to finagle a deal,” said Turner. “There was a personal connection through the film.” Well, there it is perhaps—somebody knew somebody… The rumor at the party though is that the property’s present owners, Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and wife Sally Quinn, stay in the home in August, otherwise it’s rented out for the remaining 11 months of the year for $250,000. But rumors are rumors...

Still, it was quite a sight to see festival veterans wide-eyed in front of the staircase where “Little Edie” danced with an American flag in the Maysles doc, or even peering into the room where “Big Edie” spent most of her day with cats and cookingwear bedside.

“We thought it would be fun to have a party for a documentary film at a place where one of the most famous docs in the world had been filmed,” said Turner, a former acquisitions exec for a previous incarnation of United Artists. “And it was our impetus to get as many filmmakers out here. It’s something, I couldn’t have imagined it.” Turner then turned to “Racing Dreams,” lavishing compliments on Curry saying he’s “one of the most talented directors working in documentary today” as exhibited in his previous work on “Street Fight” and “Waking Dreams.” “Marshall can find something like racing and turn it into something much more complex,” he added.

From IndieWire, by The Lost Boy, on October 10, 2009

I went to Grey Gardens

Last night the doc “Racing Dreams” had their Hamptons Film Festival afterparty at Grey Gardens. And I had the remarkable privilege of attending. Owned by Ben Bradlee of “All The President’s Men” fame since 1977, it doesn’t exactly have the raccoons and cat shit vibe anymore, but you could still completely orient parts of the house in memories of the film. It was pretty awe-inspiring, standing on those infamous stars or in the bedroom where Big Edie once laid for days on end (there was also Grey Gardens paraphernalia all over as a reminder). Here are a few pics, though it was dark so the glory that was the outside went undocumented.