Grey Gardens-inspired fashion shoots by photographer Mark O'Sullivan

Nicely done! The second one seems more accurately Grey Gardens than the first.

From Cargo Collective, by Mark O'Sullivan

Grey Gardens 1

From Cargo Collective, by Mark O'Sullivan

Grey Gardens 2

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Some of these images appeared here.

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Grey Gardens nominated for Writer's Guild of America award

As if the Emmy awards and the Golden Globe and SAG nominations weren't enough, here's another wonderful nod to HBO's Grey Gardens!

From Hollywood Reporter, by Nellie Andreeva, on December 14, 2009

A complete list of WGA Awards for television, radio, news, promotional writing and animation follows:

Long Form—Original

Over one hour—one or two parts, one or two airing times

• "Georgia O'Keefe," Written by Michael Cristofer; Lifetime
• "Grey Gardens," Teleplay by Michael Sucsy and Patricia Rozema, Story by Michael Sucsy; HBO
• "Pedro," Screenplay by Dustin Lance Black, Story by Paris Barclay & Dustin Lance Black; MTV

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HBO's Grey Gardens nominated for Screen Actors' Guild Awards

Both Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange are nominated for their performances in HBO's Grey Gardens! Congratulations, ladies!

From SAG Awards, on December 17, 2009

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

• JOAN ALLEN /Georgia O'Keeffe - "GEORGIA O'KEEFFE" (Lifetime)
• DREW BARRYMORE /Little Edie - "GREY GARDENS" (HBO)
• RUBY DEE / Mrs.Harper - "AMERICA" (Lifetime)
• JESSICA LANGE /Big Edie - "GREY GARDENS" (HBO)
• SIGOURNEY WEAVER/ Mary Griffith - "PRAYERS FOR BOBBY" (Lifetime)

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Grey Gardens on Desperate Housewives

Eva Longoria as Big Edie?! I don't believe it!

It looks like this episode airs January 3, 2010.

From ONTD, by colossusx, on 17 December 2009

Desperate Housewives Does Grey Gardens!

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HBO's Grey Gardens is nominated for Golden Globes!

HBO's Grey Gardens is nominated for 3 Golden Globe awards! Congratulations! The movie itself was nominated, as were actresses Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange!

From Golden Globes, on 15 December 2009

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Georgia O'Keeffe (Lifetime Television)

  Sony Pictures Television

• Grey Gardens (HBO)

  Specialty Films and Locomotive in association with HBO Films

• Into The Storm (HBO)

  Scott Free and Rainmark Films Production in association with the BBC and HBO Films

• Little Dorrit (PBS)

  Masterpiece/BBC Co-production

• Taking Chance (HBO)

  Motion Picture Corporation of America and Civil Dawn Pictures in association with HBO Films

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Joan Allen Georgia O'Keeffe
• Drew Barrymore Grey Gardens
• Jessica Lange Grey Gardens
• Anna Paquin The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler
• Sigourney Weaver Prayers For Bobby

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Wonderful, rare poster for Grey Gardens from San Francisco's Castro Theatre

Aren't these great? I wish I had known about these earlier. They'd make such great Christmas presents!

From eBay, by aliencorset

Grey Gardens Beales Silkscreen Movie Poster

Silkscreen Poster for screening at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. Mint condition. 20 x 26 inches.Only 40 made. Signed and Numbered.

Shipping $9.00 by priority mail in a big solid tube. $15 for international. Combined shipping available. Please wait for invoice.

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Analysis of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's set design for Grey Gardens the musical

What an interesting decision!

From Live Design, by Brad Hathaway, on December 3, 2009

Garden-Themed But Definitely Not Grey

The key to the visual design of Grey Gardens at the Philadelphia Theatre Company seems to have been the second word of the title. Projection designer Jorge Cousineau envisioned garden-themed wall paper decorating the walls of the East Hampton, NY estate where the musical takes place as the feature that carries the action from scene to scene, decade to decade and mood to mood.

The play takes place on the estate of the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and details their descent from the wealth and power of upper crust society in the 1940s to the reclusive isolation in (to quote from the script) "a refuge for 52 stray cats, a few rabid raccoons and its two reclusive inhabitants, all living in an environment the Health Department calls ‘unfit for human habitation.'" In the design envisioned by Cousineau, director Lisa Peterson and set and costume designer David Zinn, that estate would be a character in the play.

Cousineau says that rose-patterned wall paper was Zinn's idea. "It fit the time when floral patterns would be used on the walls." He took the idea to heart, using digital projectors with the TroikaTronix Isadora programming control to blend, expand, move, and modify images projected on Zinn's set. From the very start, that set was intended to be primarily a projection surface for what Cousineau calls "digital scenic and emotional enrichments."

Isadora allowed the image of the first scene of the show which takes place in an overgrown rose garden, complete with shadows of neighboring trees, to morph into the ordered décor of the Bouviers' drawing room where the rest of the first act takes place. The concept allowed a wide range of moods and locales through the coordination of the stage turntable with projectors embedded in the upstage wall, the sides and on the balcony rail all controlled by the Isadora program on an Apple MAC Pro from the back of the house.

The ability to use the images to underscore short moments without requiring actual movement of set pieces was amply demonstrated in the song "Marry Well," which invokes images of both golf and patriotism. The character of JV "Major" Bouvier tells his nieces, Jacqueline and Lee, "with your eye on the ball and your feet on the fairway, hit it high, little girls, Marry well." With that line, the projection could rotate down to the grass on the ground creating a golf-course in the blink of an eye. When the song briefly turned to patriotic themes, Cousineau brought up flags and bunting over the basic set.

Cousineau found one capability of the system with Isadora particularly valuable. "I've never had such freedom before," he says. "We could play with color saturation and balance in real time. During tech, we worked through a number of ideas with Lisa, and when she liked one, we could add it to the routine." He provides one example: "When Big Edie breaks into a brief Japanese song, we brought in a hint of an orange hue and quickly reverted. She loved it so we kept it in."

Not all the effects were impressionistic touches. There were moments that called for more realistic representations. When Little Edie and her beau, young Joe Kennedy, stroll through the still manicured gardens of the mansion, it was a photograph of a garden that set the scene.

Cousineau is a German-born sound and projection designer based in Philadelphia where he and his wife operate Subcircle, a collaborative performance/installation company. He sees nothing particularly unusual in being both a sound and projection designer. "Actually, my degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden is in painting, but I found I was much more interested in a mix of the visual and aural and this led to work on spatial installations with my wife, who is a dancer."

Cousineau has worked at the Philadelphia Theatre Company a number of times, twice in the company's old building and once in its new 365-seat house, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, which opened in October 2007. In this house, he designed both sound and video for Bill Irwin's The Happiness Lecture. The PTC production of Grey Gardens played May 22 to June 28, 2009.

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