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it really focuses more on Gene Pope(Who seems to have been a complete a-hole) rather than the magazine/paper/tabloid/whatever you want to call it.
I wish they had focused more on some of the 'moments' of the Enquirer.. I think a whole documentary could talk about the Anthrax attack.. Wish they had gone more in depth with the Elvis coffin photo and a few things.
I just watched Grey Gardens (1975) on Hulu for the second time.
The 1975 film was a documentary about two relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beales and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Beals) who lived in squalor in a decaying mansion called Grey Gardens in the Hamptons. In the 28-room trash, raccoon, and cat filled mansion, they lived in one tiny fithy room, sleeping in twin beds side by side. They had a stove and refrigerator in their bedroom where they ate their meals. One scene showed them cooking and eating corn on the cob in bed, while another scene showed one of the cats going potty behind Big Edie's large portrait (of her in her prime) that was propped up against the wall.
If you're a fan of "Mommie Dearest", you might like this to see the relationship between the Big and Little Edies. Little Edie was just plain surreal and as far as what became of her mother, who had once been a wealthy and beautiful socialite, was just plain tragic.
I went to the library to get the DVD of the movie of the same name made for HBO in 2009, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.
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Finally saw the Levon Helm doc on Netflix, I'm a big fan as well as of The Band so that's my perspective going in. I was impressed in that it took a "fly on the wall" approach for the most part, the producer just prodded him to elaborate a couple of times here & there but otherwise just let him be himself at home, in the studio & at the doctors. This was shot over several years & encompassed his last years, his family life & showed his anger & frustration about The Band's business arrangements on most of the members.
So it was wasn't the typical music doc but a personal look at an artist's twilight years as he was determined to keep moving forward. I really liked it.
SuperMensch - What with that title, awful cover art & dubious subject matter - a profile of a Hollywood manager - I doubt many people would choose this but as it turned out the guy, Shep Gordon, has an interesting story & seems to be a very nice guy living the dream. Just the opposite of Robert Evans in The Kid Stays in The Picture, another Hollywood guy who did it all 2X & has no small appreciation of himself but that's the part that's entertaining for that one. Both use manipulated photos in very imaginative ways, Supermensch has the advantage of several years advances in digital processing.
Interesting documentary about a Lutheran minister in North Dakota helping unemployed men who went there to find work in the oil industry. Tough circumstances for a lot of people who couldn't/can't find work or a place to stay. And tough on the small town trying to absorb the newcomers.
No No - A Dockumentary.. Has just come back onto Netflix.. It's a pretty good one, and if you're a baseball fan, very much worth a watch.. Basically the story of Dock Ellis, who threw a no hitter in the 70's while on an LSD trip
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