Forty years have passed since filmmaking brothers Albert and David Maysles took their cameras into Grey Gardens. The faded East Hampton estate was the home of Edith Bouvier Beale (a.k.a. “Big Edie”) ...

How is it possible that two reclusive, batty aristocrats whose lives looked liked the end of a line — albeit the fantastic flaming out of a certain kind of American old wealth — have become a ...

It was in a cover story in New York magazine that I first became aware of Grey Gardens. I'll never forget how appalled I was reading about the Beale women, Jackie Kennedy Onassis's aunt and first ...

Let's be honest: Grey Gardens doesn't exactly have the most appealing connotations. For starters, the name just sounds dreary. (Who wants to hang out in a grey garden? Not me.) Not to mention, the ...