Glenn Weldon
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5,101 appearances
50 recordings
10 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard 10 Sep
Glenn Weldon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The mother is called Big Edie.
The daughter is called Little Edie.
As we meet them, they live in this decaying mansion near the tip of Long Island, a house called Grey Gardens on the beach in East Hampton.
It's falling apart.
It's overgrown.
grown.
There's no running water.
There's garbage piled up in the rooms.
Raccoons have the run of the place.
But both of these women are American aristocracy, if not American royalty.
They both come from privilege.
They were members of high society, both debutantes and socialites in their youth.
Big Edie was Jackie Kennedy's aunt and Little Edie was her cousin.
But
But when Big Edie's husband left her, she moved out of Manhattan and moved to Grey Gardens.
Little Edie joined her a little bit later, and they became this pair of reclusive eccentrics.
Their trust fund dried up, and they were living in this dilapidated mansion in one of the most expensive zip codes in the U.S., which is the irony of it.
I'll be honest, when this topic came up,
I initially saw this movie because I thought of its most famous scene, which is where Little Edie celebrates the Fourth of July by putting on some marching band music and dancing around the house's foyer in her signature headscarf while she's waving an American flag.
the more I became convinced that this film says everything there is to say about America.
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