Reply #24: I'm glad they did

[LynneSin]

I haven't seen the original except clips on YouTube. But I think the story is amazing and I probably would have never known about these 2 women if I hadn't seen the movie. Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore did wonderful jobs as Big & Little Edie. HBO On-Demand had a few shorts about the making of the movie. THey would show the original documentary and then you'd see clips from the new movie. Jessica and Drew put alot of work into faithfully portraying hte Edies especially Jessica Lange. Her singing voice almost mirrored the one done by the original Edie.

The HBO movie introduced a whole new generation to the store of the Big & Little Edith Bouvier Beale and it's an amazing story. I think I've watched the HBO movie 3-4 times now and every time I kept wishing she had just done the audition - she might have made it and had the chance to live her life instead of being stuck in genteel poverty all those years. There's just alot of "What Ifs" with that movie - those 2 didn't have to end up like that.