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she'd lived longer, "Little Edie" Beale could have been a
reality celebrity, teamed with Corky Ballas on Dancing with the
Stars. Instead, she and her bedridden mother, Big Edie, are
forever trapped in the grimy amber of the famous 1975
documentary Grey Gardens. The Beales, society ladies who counted
Jackie Onassis as a relative, lived in dilapidated squalor in
what had once been a fine Hamptons house. They weren't deluded
about the filthiness of their latter days, when the rooms were
crammed with trash and cats, but both were addled (and
sustained) by fantasies of show business. The documentary, a
voyeuristic classic, is crushingly bleak. This more conventional
biographical movie, which includes flashbacks to days of parties
and prettiness, is much sweeter—we know these are just actresses
and, better yet, ones who are superb. As Little Edie, Drew
Barrymore is a guileless, frustrated doll of a woman: a pitiable
Baby Jane. And Jessica Lange's transfor