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Barrymore to star in HBO's "Grey Gardens"


(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-09-19 09:35




Drew Barrymore


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Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange will star in an HBO movie adaptation of
"Grey Gardens," the 1975 documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis'
eccentric cousin and aunt.

The story follows the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of
"Big Edie" (Lange) and "Little Edie" Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of
their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.

The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006,
though HBO Films was not involved at the time. It's yet to be determined
if the movie will be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made
national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department
raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey
Gardens -- and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of
garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water. The
department threatened to kick the pair out of the 28-room mansion before
Kennedy Onassis stepped in and paid to help clean it up. Their story was
documented by "Gimme Shelter" directors Albert and David Maysles.

Big Edie died in 1977, and Little Edie sold the house to Washington Post
editor Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn two years later. She became a
nightclub singer, moved to Florida and died in 2002.

It's not the first time the documentary has been adapted. In spring 2006,
"Grey Gardens" opened as a musical at Playwright Horizons before moving
to Broadway in November at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The show, starring
Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson -- both of whom won Tony Awards
for their roles -- ended its Broadway run in July. Ebersole will reprise
her role when the show opens this season in London.

Barrymore's upcoming credits include the films "He's Just Not That Into
You" and "South of the Border." Lange's recent credits include CBS'
"Sybil" and the film "Bonneville."

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