Edith
"Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier and her daughter Edith "Little
Edie", respectively aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier, better
known as Jacqueline Kennedy and later Onassis, lived for decades, in the
greatest eccentricity and isolation, separated from the World in the deepest
misery and in a "Parallel World and alien to Reality", which they
created ... in an old decrepit mansion.... but with 28 divisions and situated
in the affluent residential area of Georgica Pond in East Hampton, New York.
Between
1971 and 1972, they were discovered around the world, after a series of
inspections carried out by the Suffock Hygiene Department, when the state of
degradation and accumulation of garbage reached the unbearable.
The
publication of an article in the "New York Magazine" and another in
the "National Enquirer" aroused the interest of the Maysles brothers,
who produced and directed a documentary about the daily life of these two
characters in 1975, of extraordinary interest, due to the authenticity,
spontaneousness and genuineness of the images and testimonies.
After her
mother's death in 1977, her daughter "Little Edie" sold the house in
1979 to former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who restored it to its
former glory. or precisely destroyed it definitively ..... according to the
criteria of interpretation ....
However,
this theme has already provoked and inspired a play in 2008 and more recently a
Feature Film with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore to be released in April
2009.
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