Grey Gardens Page #8

all right for me to marry Tom Logan

Why did you want to marry a kid 32?

- I forgot to say that Eugene was a count

- He didn't have a nickel

I would have been Countess...

Countess Edith

I didn't want my child to be taken away

I'd be entirely alone

Do you know what I go through

with this awful stuff?

Listen, I've got to eat lunch

I'm starving

Well, you know me... always hungry

- [Door Closes]

- I'm not gonna gain the weight back

I didn't have any breakfast

- I'll put some lipstick on

- You want to give me something to put on, Edie?

[Giggles]

I'm beginning to laugh

- These are my brother's drawers

- Give me something to put on

And I feel so strongly about mementos

and everything because of Mother

that I was never able to ever clean out

these desk drawers and throw the stuff away

- Would you believe that?

You know, it's childhood stuff

- Oh, Edie, yoo-hoo!

- "Memorabalia" or something

- Edie, yoo-hoo!

- I couldn't throw anything away

- They're looking at this room

- Oh, Edie!

Yeah, just a minute

They discovered something

terrific in here

- Come on I've waited long enough

- Is it from Austria?

- Why, what happened?

- Never mind about me

[Edie] "The moving finger writes

and, having writ, moves on"

I was going to write

another line from Omar Khayyam:

"We come like water

and we go like wind"

Edie, yoo-hoo!

- Well, I got that one up

- Edie, bring me the telephone

That's the man

This is the woman

- I can't tell

- Are you getting me the blue kimono, Edie?

I'm putting up the silver masks

Edie, come here a minute Hurry

I can't get the thumbtack

in the wall

- I think I have the saddest life

- Oh, Edie!

I have to go on with

the redecoration of this room

- Yeah

- Can you get me something to eat?

All right

[Edie]

I made this

Those are roses

of all different years

That's my shell collection

You can't see it, it's so dirty Isn't that tragic?

That's... These...

Then I have two things to go there

And "Around the World"

is supposed to go there

Edie, I can't do it

- Open it I can't do it

- I'm just gonna put that up there

'cause I like red

in this room for some reason

And I was gonna hang

the birdcage right here

and have "Around the World" there

But I haven't gotten to that

Perhaps I'd better begin taking care of

Mother and bossing her and cooking her some food

- What do you boys think?

- [David] Bossing her around?

Yeah

I let her do what she wants

I think maybe I ought to give her

cooked meals at certain hours

What do you think?

I don't have any clock

You know,

I never know what time it is

You think she'd eat them?

I don't know You know her

better than anybody

I give her her head I let her do what

she wants to do I think it's awful

She should eat, you know, chopped meat and

a baked potato at a certain hour for luncheon

Then have a nice little dinner

But that takes timing

No, I'm not ready,

and I have no makeup on!

- [Albert Laughing]

- But things are getting better!

Did you find my sign, "In bathtub"?

Right

I couldn't believe it

Come on in

We're not ready

- [Mrs. Beale] Is that Al down there? Hello, Al

- [Albert] Yeah Hi

- Take your time

- Oh, God! I almost tripped

I almost broke my neck then

God, these stairs are dirty

Oh

[Giggles]

[Indistinct Chattering]

How could Edie leave

these stairs like this?

Don't I look funny

coming down these stairs, hmm?

- [David] No You look great

- Don't I? I feel funny

I feel funny

- Just like a night at the opera

- Is it?

The night at the opera will be when

I get in that chair in the dining room

That would be the night

at the opera

- [Edie] Mother, Lois and Jack are here!

- Hello, jack

- [Lois] Happy birthday!

- [Chatters, Indistinct]

I say, where's the cushion, Edie?

Get the cushion I'll ruin my dress

- Oh, yes She puts it here

- Oh, God, and those chairs

Are they dirty, those chairs

Hello, jack

- Hi, how are you? Happy birthday

- [Mrs. Beale Giggles]

Well, you're very cute

to celebrate with me today

- [Edie] I like you in that costume, Lois

- Oh, why, thank you

[Edith] I see Edie hasn't...

You better not sit on those chairs

- They look very dirty

- They can sit on paper

I thought you were gonna

clean up, Edie

I tried

I swept the, uh, hall

Well, I'm kind of disapp...Jack,

you don't mind sitting by me, do you?

I swept the floor We have wine

I'll bring down the glasses

Bring down the wine, please

- And Edie is due... Lois is due ginger ale

- Okay

But don't let the cats out

How do you like that thing

Lois did for me, jack?

Are your eyes good enough

to see that?

- Oh, sure

- How are your eyes?

[Edie Giggling]

- She's no waitress, I'll tell ya

- [Giggling Continues]

Well, she's got a pretty heavy tray

Leave the tray here, won't you?

Oh, no, she's not gonna

She's gonna do

just as she wants, you know

She's a Schrafft's waitress

They always do just as they want

Here's to Mother

May she live to be at least 80

- [Mrs. Beale] Oh, it's one more year Ha, ha

- She's in her 79th

- She's in her 79th now... 79th year

- [Radio Announcer, Indistinct]

She's gonna tell that to everybody

in East Hampton, you know

- [Jack] Well, that's life

- Everybody's gonna know my age

- Well, happy birthday

- Thank you very much

- [Lois] (music) Happy birthday (music)

- Sing me "Happy Birthday" Sing it

- I sang it

- Do it again

- (music) Happy birthday to you (music)

- (music) Happy birthday (music)

- [Lois] Very good

- (music) Happy birthday (music)

(music) Dear Mother (music)

- [Mrs. Beale Laughing]

- (music) Happy birthday (music)

(music) To you (music)

Why do we have to have

paper cups when I wanted my...

I wanted my green goblets with all the gold

on 'em, and she wouldn't bring 'em down

- [Radio:
Commercial]

- So disappointed on my birthday

(music) Sugar-free Diet Pepsi is here (music)

[Mrs. Beale] Oh, what a beautiful...

I knew I wanted to look at that cake!

Did you ever see anything

like that?

- "Happy Birthday" Gorgeous!

- [Phone Ringing]

- Imagine having red... Somebody's calling me, Edie

- That's terrific

- My sister ordered that out of Sag Harbor

- [Edie] Hello? Yeah

- Hey, Mother, can you move your chair a little bit?

- Yeah

This is the first time we've used

the long wire in the dining room

Oh, hello, Polly

Thank you, dear Are you gonna sing it

all the way through?

[Giggles] Listen,

I got your beautiful present

- Uh, Edie, have you brought the present down yet?

- I haven't opened any presents

We're sitting down here

in the so-called old...

- What, dear?

- We haven't opened anything

There's a great big box up there

Tremendous box, but we haven't

opened the presents

Well, you sent me a card

I got that

I don't think she did

send Mother a card

Michele sent the cards

I haven't started the cake,

but I'll read you what it says

It says, uh...

What does it say, Jack?

Edith, happy birthday...

Oh, it says, "Happy birthday, Edith"

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