Mabel, if I ever get back to Moorestown, I sure will look it up, would love to see it. My interest in the copper beech occurred alas after I left Moorestown (how CAN they close that bakery!! Those creme doughnuts! Those cinnamon buns! ) so I was not aware of it, thank you.
Steph, that does sound most poetic. I wish that RVing appealed to me but it doesn't, but it's See the USA Your Way, I like the seeming romance of it, tho. Did you happen to see any of the films or demos at Corning on glass blowing? I have the DVD and they are fabulous, most interesting.
Allie, Jane and Pat will be glad to help you with the coding!
Pedln, let us know how you like America, America, I have heard of it. That actor in the movie The Emperor's Club, who played the young man is quite hot today in Hollywood, he's a lot younger than I thought, too.
A Mini Review:
I'm almost through My Life at Grey Gardens. I am not sure it's possible to describe it. You can't quote from it unless you are doing a review. It's ....strange....and fascinating. I am glad to see that in her own home Mrs. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) did enjoy respect and love from those around her despite the somewhat....uh...indescribable circumstances. The house is described as almost weaving a spell, being a safe type of haven despite the cats, etc., and no water in the bathtubs. They kept it like a fortress, locking each other in and out, worrying about burglars and kidnapping. It's only when you stop and think a minute that you can get an accurate picture. I swear it makes you consider aging and a lot of other things like self delusion.
It's another voice to go with the documentary. The one thing that I sort of disagreed with in the book's descriptions which make me rethink the whole, was how Big Edie's speaking voice was described. The author seemed to think of it as "lovely," and apparently she was felt to have a nice singing voice. The author of this book felt that her everyday speaking was melodious, and that the phone calls from her on the upper floor were what went thru them all like a knife. But it's her speaking voice that haunted me after seeing the movie, I don't think I could have listened to that demanding querulous constant slightly aggrieved insistent tone 5 minutes, much less constantly. I believe it would have driven me insane. It almost does in the movie and just reading the book. In some ways it's like an insane asylum, which seems strangely to affect everybody who stays there. It makes you question your own life, truly. Like "what is sanity?"
They also got almost nothing from the Maysles original documentary, at least here at 7/8ths thru the book which is an outrage. They also did receive a LOT of help from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a LOT, she paid monthly for a lot of things nobody knows about, after the movie , in addition to paying to fix up the house. I am not sure....I dunno, this is one of the strangest books I have ever read. Talk about truth being stranger than fiction!
