I’ve watched this pair of documentaries in the wrong order – Grey Gardens was released way before The Beales of Grey Gardens, and I still haven’t watched Grey Gardens (but have requested it from the library).

The women featured in this documentary are fantastically eccentric – in every clichéd way (they are cat women) and then some. It’s hard to watch this without laughing out loud.

A series of dull, meandering shots that aren’t all that interesting unless you have a thing for the Kennedys such that you’re amused that they have loony relatives… which I don’t and I’m not, since in isn’t the 70’s.

“I went to Mass up until the time I was 28 years old!”
“That’s how she got so fat, not getting up on Sunday to go to Mass.”
“Oh! What a whopper!”
“It keeps you very thin!”
“I’m not going to church to keep thin! I’m going to go because I love the Lord!”