Down East - All posts tagged 'grey gardens'
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Popping culture: Little Edie is reincarnated on RuPaul's Drag Race

Kudos to Jinkx Monsoon. Boo to the queens who didn't know who Little Edie was.

On the latest episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, the lovely -- and narcoleptic -- Ms Jinkx Monsoon was getting ready with the rest of the queens for this year's edition of the Snatch Game, where each queen dresses up as various celebrities and characters. Well, Ms Monsoon decided to perform her own homage to the kookiest of all high- (and low-) society dames, Little Edie Beale, of the famed Grey Gardens

Now in my book, if you're a gay man and don't know who Little Edie is, then that is unfortunate. If you're a drag queen who makes it onto RuPaul's Drag Race and you don't know who she is, then you, my child, are -- if I can appropriate a term -- ovah.

When Jinkx announces her character to the rest of the crew, many of them don't know who she is. Some of the younger (read: inexperienced) queens may be given a little slack for not knowing about Beale, her mother, the Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis connection, the house, the cats and the raccoons. But for queens like Coco? That's just sad.

Monsoon is genius in the game, throwing shade in ways that goes right over some of those ladies' heads. 

Gawker has video of the episode, or you can watch the whole thing on OUTtv. And really, you should watch the whole thing. 


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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Paris Is Burning is in the running once again

There is no denying the love that I have for Paris Is Burning. So I was pleased to hear that PBS's documentary show, POV, is hosting a Greatest Documentary of All Time competition on their website.

More than 20 years later, Paris is still bringing it to the masses. I love this.

For those of you who don't know what the hubbub is all about, a small clip:

Another contender to the title is the Maysles brothers' Grey Gardens, a film that has its hold on a lot of gay hearts. We love Edie for her kookiness and her fashion sense. We love Big Edie for her eternal grace under pressure (and for never mentioning that most unmentionable of things, the mountains of cat shit in the house).

Work it, you staunch women!

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