Remains of the Day (01/31)

6sqft: This couple has made 220 square feet work for 24 years in a Chelsea Hotel SRO 

HuffPost: Mitch McConnell thinks Democrats are trying to steal elections by allowing people to vote

Vanity Fair: There's yet another Trump-Putin meeting we didn't know about

Philadelphia Magazine: Forget Pizza Rat -- Philly's Pretzel Rat is the next rodent celebrity

Instagram: CNN's Natalie Allen has a hot son

Gr8er Days: 30 classic documentaries that were snubbed by Oscar

Boy Culture: Out candidate Pete Buttigieg on whether American is ready for a gay president

The Fix: The next generation of voters is more liberal, more inclusive and believes in government

Baseline: Rafael Nadal finally popped the question

The Washington Post: Senate backs McConnell’s rebuke of Trump’s military drawdown plans in Syria, Afghanistan

Towleroad: Locker Room 101 -- Soap dropping for dummies

The Randy Report: First an armed lunatic at Comet Ping Pong and now this bullshit?

Greg in Hollywood: Start doing your tongue exercises, guys: Showtime is reviving "The L Word"

OMG Blog: Michael Angels and Keith Roenke are fully naked in "D'Agostino"

New York Post: Woman arrested for masturbating in public picked up where she left off in back of police car

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Page 1 Roundup (02/11)

The Daily News: Bronx principal probed after creating hostile environment for black teachers, students: ‘She’s a racist’

'Grey Gardens' estate sues Long Island gallery for owning stolen Jackie Kennedy painting

New York Post: Kim Cattrall pens scathing post to ‘Sex and the City’ co-star Sarah Jessica Parker for ‘exploiting’ brother’s death

How I learned I was my fiancé's second mistress

Page Six: Larry David's daughter may be bringing her own awkward brand of humor to television -- based on her hilarious web series called 'Eighty-Sixed'

Rose McGowan addresses former manager’s suicide, while dodging family's culpability claim

The New York Times: G.O.P. squirms as Trump veers off script with abuse remarks

How Joy Reid of MSNBC became a heroine of the resistance

The Associated Press: Venus Williams, CoCo Vandeweghe give USA 2-0 lead against Netherlands at Fed Cup

The Daily Beast: To win respect from LGBT Olympians, Pence must condemn conversion therapy

The Washington Post: The hysterical obituary that made strangers miss a man they never knew

'Grey Gardens' Mansion Hits Market for Nearly $20 Million

You won't believe what Sally Quinn and her late Washington Post editor hubby, Ben Bradlee, did with Big and Little Edie's old digs. Read HERE.

Hot plate and raccoons sold separately ...

Albert Maysles, 'Grey Gardens' Documentarian, Is Dead at 88

Gays are flying their Speedos at half-staff today. With the exception of "Mommie Dearest," I don't think there was ever a film that hit my camp bone so hard, even if in the Beales' case it wasn't exactly intentional.

Albert Maysles, the Emmy Award-winning documentarian who, with his brother, David, made intensely talked-about films including “Grey Gardens” and “Gimme Shelter” with their American version of cinéma vérité, died Thursday night at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. 

[C}oncerns were expressed about “Grey Gardens” (1975), a double portrait of Edith Bouvier and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale, both cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who lived in squalor and with some obvious mental confusion in what had once been a grand East Hampton house. But the film captured and held the public’s attention for decades.

Read HERE.

Drag Queen's Little Edie Is Big!

I have to say, the idea of sitting through an episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race" is about as appealing as listening to Madonna's "Hard Candy." But even I have to agree with Rich Juzwiak that Jinkx Monsoon's Little Edie (Bouvier Beale) impersonation is just about the best thing ever. (Note the judges are MTV's Julie Brown and Downtown Julie Brown!) Gawker has the clip HERE.

Double Feature

After a whirlwind week with my friend Nina from Chicago, last night we decided to stay in after dinner and watch a movie. Nina had been dying for me to see the infamous 1970s documentary "Grey Gardens," which chronicles the lives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' aunt and cousin -- Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie -- who gained notoriety when the National Enquirer and the Suffolk County Health Department revealed that the two onetime debutantes lived in squalor and almost total isolation for more than 20 years in the mother's decrepit East Hampton mansion, Grey Gardens. If you haven't seen this, you must! It is everything reality television aspires to be and then some. The two women are delightfully out of touch with reality -- 79-year-old Mom still thinks she's an aspiring singer and 58-year-old daughter a flirtatious ingenue dancer. The things they say to each other make Judi Dench's character in "Notes On a Scandal" seem like Doris Day -- and their bizarre day-to-day routines -- like cooking corn on the cob in bed and feeding Wonder Bread to the raccoons who live in the attic -- have to be seen to be truly believed. While it may sound highly exploitational, the two Edies seem to relish their time in front of the camera and a chance to tell their side of the story, and at the end of the DVD the directors included the audio of a phone call between Little Edie and Albert Maysles (one of the film's producers and cinematographers) and the love and affection between them remained strong into the new millennium (Little Edie died in 2002).

Apparently a two-disc DVD was released last year that includes a whole separate film -- "The Beales of Grey Gardens" -- using the unused footage. I'm eager to see more ... I'm still completely in awe.

When we went to rent "Grey Gardens" we found out it was two-for-one night at my video store, so I reluctantly turned around to see if there was anything else near the checkout line that might be worth grabbing for "free." Out jumped "Jesus Camp," and we actually got around to watching that one, too. I mistakenly thought it was about a camp to turn gay kids straight, but it's actually almost scarier than even that. It chronicles this awkward, closeted lesbian with bad highlights, Becky Fisher, as she trains young soldiers in "God's Army" at a cult summer camp for evangelical Christian children in North Dakota. What happens next is beyond belief -- but let it suffice to say that Ted Haggard was involved and that Nina and I sat there in shock for 90 minutes. I'm petrified to go to sleep tonight because nightmares are assured. If this is what the future of America looks like, God help us all.