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17 articles from 2009

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Grey Gardens Makes Japanese Debut, 11/7

21 October 2009 1:11 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

The Tony-nominated musical Grey Gardens, will make it's debut across the Pacific in Japan at Tokyo's Theatre Creation from November 7 - December 6.  The production is being directed by Tony-nominated Amon Miyamoto (Pacific Overtures). 

The production, which has been translated into Japanese, will tale the now infamous riches to rags tale of East Hampton socialites Edith Bouvier Beale and little Eddie Beale. Grey Gardens will premiere at Theatre Creation in Tokyo, with a mini tour to follow including stops in Osaka and Nagoya in December. The shows creators, Scott Frankel (composer), Michael Korie (lyricist), Doug Wright (book) are scheduled to attend the Tokyo opening.

Little Edie Beale will be played by Shinovu Ohtake. Mitsuko Kusabue will portray the elder, Big Edie Beale. They will be joined on stage by Kanami Ayano (Young Edie), Takuji Kawakubo (Joe Kennedy), Keigo Yoshino (George Gould Strong), David Yano (Brooks), Akihiko Mitsueda (Major Bouvier), Tomoyo Kurosawa »

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Unicorn Theatre Hosts Grey Gardens Benefit 11/15

16 October 2009 3:13 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Unicorn Theatre invites everyone to join us for An Evening in the Grey Gardens on November 15, 2009 from 6-10pm. This benefit for the Unicorn is themed around the upcoming production of the Tony award winning musical Grey Gardens playing January 27 through February 28, 2010 on the Unicorn's Mainstage. Grey Gardens is based on the 1975 documentary of the same name by Albert and David Maysles. The benefit will be held at Skyline Downtown Salon, located at 2001 Grand Boulevard on the 4th floor of the historic Firestone building in the Crossroads Art District. The evening will include an exclusive screening of the documentary and musical numbers from the show performed by Cathy Barnett and Kathleen Warfel. Barnett and Warfel will play the notorious mother/daughter duo of "Big" and "Little" Eddie Beale.

Tickets are just $85 and include heavy hors o'oeuvres provided by Californos and two drink tickets followed by a cash bar. A raffle, »

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Bloom Where You're Planted: Grey Gardens' Timeless Style

21 September 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

In the early 1970s, after a fall from the upper echelons of New York society, a mother and daughter known as Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale were living in increasing squalor in their crumbling East Hampton mansion. Overrun with stray cats and botched dreams, they were unlikely movie stars and even less likely style icons, but they became both after filmmaker brothers Albert and David Maysles captured their bizarre life in Grey Gardens, the 1975 cinema-verite classic.  »

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Soul Power - UK Trailer

17 June 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »

Soul power premiers at  is released theatrically in the UK on the 10th July 209 Glastonbury festival 2:30am Friday (Saterday morning)

"In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Southern Africa for a 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. The pipe dream of musician Hugh Masekela and producer Stewart Levine, this music festival became a reality when they convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, previously chronicled in the Academy Award winning documentary “When We Were Kings.”

Soul Power is a verité documentary, entirely composed of footage shot in 1974 at the legendary music festival (dubbed “Zaire ’74”). It shows the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, Bb King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, Miriam Makeba, among a host of others. »

- Leigh

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"Homo Harlem" to celebrate gay African-American trailblazers

9 June 2009 9:42 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Bayard Rustin/Billy Strayhorn

The Maysles Institute is celebrating the opening of their new theater in NYC with a retrospective on gay African-American trailblazers:

In honor of the 40th Anniversary of The Stonewall Rebellion and the subsequent Gay rights movement we celebrate the cinematic representation Gay life and culture in Black America’s fabled homeland with Homo Harlem: A Film Retrospective.

The Maysles brothers gave us the iconic documentary Grey Gardens, and "The Maysles Cinema, a new non-profit theater in Harlem, is dedicated to the exhibition of documentary film and video. The cinema extends the Maysles Brothers’ principle that the lives of ordinary people not only deserve, but demand, our attention".

Homo Harlem will run later this month, and features such well-known films as Looking for Langston and Paris is Burning, as well as docs on gay black pioneers Billy Strayhorn and Bayard Rustin:

Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life - Today, »

- snicks

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TV Review: Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange Give Color to ‘Grey Gardens’

22 April 2009 11:57 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – One of the best films of 2009 is currently playing on HBO in the original “Grey Gardens”. The film itself doesn’t quite stand up to recent accomplishments of the network like “John Adams” or “Recount” but it undeniably features the best performance of the year, including theatrical releases, in the revelatory, career-best work from Drew Barrymore.

Television Rating: 4.0/5.0 Bringing new dramatic shades to a quirkiness that she’s always had on-screen, Barrymore plays “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, daughter of “Big Edie” (Jessica Lange). In 1973, Albert and David Maysles entered the reclusive world of the Bouvier Beales to film a documentary about these two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Living in a run-down house, giving shows for each other, and basically living on the edge of sanity, the documentary “Grey Gardens” was a riveting portrait of these two unforgettable women.

Grey Gardens

Photo credit: HBO Films

The Maysles captured »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Drew Barrymore "Became" Her Character In New Film "Grey Gardens"

7 April 2009 11:10 PM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

Drew Barrymore "became" her character in new movie "Grey Gardens." The 34-year-old actress plays the young Edith Bouvier Beale - the eccentric cousin of former U.S. First Lady Jackie Kennedy - in the film, and was so determined to get the part Drew promised director Michael Sucsy she would live just like her character did.

She explained to America's Elle magazine: "I didn't want to come in there like a hungry freak. But I also felt every second counting. So - polite conversation, then he started looking through my binder, and I saw his demeanor change, actually noticing all the hard work I had put into it."

"I said, 'Look - I have all of this inside of me, and I promise you that I will change my face to be her. I will learn how to stop talking out of the side of my mouth. I will go »

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'Grey Gardens' Little Edie role for HBO captured Drew Barrymore

7 April 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

.My mother gave me a completely priceless life..-- .Little Edie. Beale, 1917-2002 Drew Barrymore "became" her character in the HBO movie 'Grey Gardens'. The 34-year-old actress plays the young Edith Bouvier Beale - the eccentric cousin of former Us First Lady Jackie Kennedy - in the film, and was so determined to get the part Drew promised director Michael Sucsy she would live just like her character did. She explained to America's Elle magazine: "I didn't want to come in there like a hungry freak. But I also felt every second counting. So - polite conversation, then he started looking through my binder, and I saw his demeanour change, actually noticing all the hard work I had »

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Espn inks Klores, Kopple, Levinson and Maysles for '30 for 30'

30 March 2009 9:05 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Espn has just announced that three additional filmmakers for Espn Films' "30 for 30" film project have been secured. Dan Klores (Black Magic, Crazy Love), Barry Levinson (Diner, The Natural) and Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens) along with previously announced participant, Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA and Shut Up & Sing), will film a variety of sports subjects from the past 30 years in sports. The subjects are: Reggie Miller and the New York Knicks, The Steinbrenners, The Baltimore Colts' departure to Indianapolis and the title fight between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes. Debuting on Espn in October 2009, "30 for 30" will showcase the work of 30 filmmakers to create 30 one-hour films on sports topics from »

- April MacIntyre

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Jessica Lange Rep: "She's Going to Be Just Fine"

18 March 2009 10:25 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

Jessica Lange is expected to leave a hospital today after being treated overnight for injuries she suffered from a fall at her home in Minnesota. Lange's rep confirms that the 59-year-old, two-time Oscar winner broke her collarbone when she took a spill yesterday. "She also bruised her ribs and has a couple of lacerations on her forehead," the rep said. "She's going home today. She's going to be just fine." Lange will next be seen in director Michael Sucsy's Grey Gardens as real-life Jackie O cousin Edie Beale. Drew Barrymore plays her daughter, Little Edie. The film premieres on HBO on April 18. »

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Barrymore injects "darkness" into new role

10 March 2009 1:58 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Drew Barrymore has revealed that she injected a bit of "darkness" into her role in Grey Gardens. The 34-year-old said that she begged to be given the part of "Little Edie" Beale in the HBO drama because she felt she had "more inside" her than her previous body of work suggests. Barrymore told W that she shut out her life and "lived in the monastery of Edie Beale" to give a convincing portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's cousin. "I was excited to bring my own pain to something," she said. (more) »

- By Sarah Rollo

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Barrymore Loved Grey Gardens Gloom

9 March 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Drew Barrymore loved getting dark for new TV movie Grey Gardens - because it allowed her to show fans just how miserable she can be.

The actress insists she isn't always the happy-go-lucky person she portrays in quirky movies and on chat shows, and playing Little Edie Beale in the upcoming showcase gave her the chance to vent her depression.

She tells W magazine, "I was excited to bring my own pain to something. I mean, contrary to my happy-go-luckiness, I have so much darkness in there.

"Playing Edie, I felt like s**t. I thought, 'I’m afraid beyond anything I’ve ever known. I’m miserable; I’m scared; I feel sick all the time.' And I was like, 'Good! At least I have somewhere to put it...' I’m not f**kin’ happy all the time. I like making people feel good, but it was great not to have to please anybody."

Barrymore admits that preparing for the film, which co-stars Jessica Lange and Jeanne Tripplehorn, reminded her of a stint in rehab when she was a teenager.

She became so immersed in the character of real-life recluse Beale, she locked herself away for six months.

The Charlie's Angels star turned her back on friends, newspapers and technology in an effort to get into the mindset of former U.S. First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis' odd cousin, who lived with her mother in a sprawling, rundown New York mansion.

The actress explains, "I got institutionalised as a kid, and I felt like I was back there. A lot of times I found myself unhappy and isolated, and the only other time I felt that way was when I was in there. It was absolutely trying to relearn to live. You are learning to become someone else." »

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Live blogging the Oscars

22 February 2009 12:07 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting "refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.

9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse »

- tomoneil

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Photo Flash: Grey Gardens at Beck Center Studio Theater

20 February 2009 7:25 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

What happens when American royalty falls? Beck Center presents the Cleveland premiere of Grey Gardens, the three-time Tony Award-winning musical, in the Studio Theater February 27 through March 29. Based on the 1975 cult-documentary of the same name, Grey Gardens is the hilarious yet heartbreaking story of Jackie Kennedy?s delightfully eccentric aunt and cousin, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter ?Little? Edie. Show times are 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3:00 p.m. Sundays. There is no performance on Saturday, February 28. »

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Grey Gardens Makes Its Cleveland Premiere 2/27- 3/29

19 February 2009 5:00 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

What happens when American royalty falls? Beck Center presents the Cleveland premiere of Grey Gardens, the three-time Tony Award-winning musical, in the Studio Theater February 27 through March 29. Based on the 1975 cult-documentary of the same name, Grey Gardens is the hilarious yet heartbreaking story of Jackie Kennedy's delightfully eccentric aunt and cousin, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter "Little" Edie. Show times are 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3:00 p.m. Sundays. There is no performance on Saturday, February 28. »

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Drew Barrymore Answers Your Questions!

3 February 2009 11:05 PM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Hundreds of fans wrote to People with burning questions for Drew Barrymore, who stars in and produced the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You. Now, the actress has some answers! Barrymore, 33, sounds off on everything from her sunny demeanor and evolving looks to her musical obsessions and taste in guys. You, like me, always seem to be in a good mood. How do you keep such a healthy outlook on life? – Jen Thibodeau, Gardiner, MaineBarrymore: "I like projecting positivity. I believe that we are all fields of energy and you have the choice whether to be a positive or negative field of energy. »

- Alexis Chiu

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Granymede Arts Announces Their Upcoming Shows For 2009

2 February 2009 12:39 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Granymede Arts Announces their upcoming productions, starting with After the Garden Edith Beale Live at Reno Sweeney by Gerald Duval, with Jeffrey Johnson as Little Edie Beale. Directed by Rick Hammerly and Jeffrey Johnson. Inaugural performance at Miss Pixie's Backroom Palace - 1626 14th Street Nw Thursday, March 5th at 7:30Pm (the only Thursday in the run) Friday's at 8:00Pm & 10:30Pm Saturdays at 8:00Pm (with viewings of the films Grey Gardens and The Beales of Grey Gardens show alternating Saturdays at 10:15Pm) Sundays at 7:00Pm Performed at Pixies Backroom Palace - located in the back warehouse of Miss Pixies on 14th St. Nw just south of R Street, Nw »

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2009 | 2008

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