The Practice of Creativity

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The lesson about repressed creativity from Gray Gardens

Posted by: micheleberger on: May 6, 2009

     I had vaguely heard of the 1970s campy cult classic Gray Gardens. That documentary chronicled the decayed lives (physically and metaphorically) of former socialites Edith Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and her daughter Edie Beale (Little Edie). But, I had never seen the documentary or ever thought about their lives as examples of repressed [...]


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