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Big Screen

Grey Gardens Behind The Scenes: Edie’s Grandkids Talk About The Beale Family

6:00AM Tracie | In these behind-the-scenes clips, writer/director Michael Sucsy discusses his extensive research (which included reading Little Edie’s journals), and the Beales’ descendants fondly remember the Edies. More on costume and production design, after the jump. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Real-Life Gossip Girls Will All End Up Crazy Hamptons Hermits

12:31AM Richard Lawson | Only a little news trickles out of Passover-quieted Hollywood, but we press on regardless. Melora Hardin lands a role, Showtime slows down, Gossip Girl gets real, Osama gets acquitted, and Grey Gardens gets lauded. More »
Small Screen

More On HBO’s Grey Gardens: “The Hallmark Of Aristocracy Is Responsibility”

6:00AM Tracie | HBO’s Grey Gardens — premiering stateside April 18 — satisfies the hunger fans have for more on the Beale women better than pâté, ice cream and hotplate-boiled corn. We know, cause we got a copy. More »

Trade Roundup: Jennifer Connelly Takes The Keanu Reeves Co-Star Challenge

6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · Hollywood Out of Ideas, Can’t Blame the Writers For the Current Idea Shortage Edition: Jennifer Connelly – an actress we’d pay $14 dollars to watch knitting a sweater or making peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches – will join monosyllabic, paparazzi-punishing superstar Keanu Reeves in Fox’s remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. [Variety] · ABC’s Cashmere Mafia might be the first primetime victim of the strike, as the network yanks the new series from its schedule before its originally planned November 27 debut. But good news for those craving Sex and the City-inspired entertainment: NBC hasn’t yet abandoned nearly identical project Lipstick Jungle. [Variety] More »