Grey Gardens Page #2

- Well, there are certain compensations, I guess

- Is it the 12th today?

The old woman, she has to remember

everything, you know that

I think this is correct

Brooks Hiers H-I-E-R-S

- Oh, I didn't think it was necessary

- Yes

Why didn't you let me do this in the house for?

Why did you make me do it here?

Mother, you don't have

enough clothes on

Well, I hope... I'm gonna get naked in

just a minute, so you better watch out

- That's what I'm afraid of

- Yeah, for what? Now, why?

- I haven't got any warts on me

- But the movie, the movie

- I haven't got any warts on me

- That isn't the point, Mother darling

Well, you know where you got,

being like that

No husband, no babies, nothing

I can't help it

I like to wear certain things

- Is that H-Y-E-R? H-Y?

- She likes everything without girdles

- H-Y, Edie, or H-I?

- H-Y-E-R-S

- H-Y?

- Yeah

She and Marjorie don't believe

in wearing girdles

I haven't worn a girdle

since I was 12 years old

- Here you are

- Mother has certain ideas about, uh...

- I certainly have certain ideas about living a long time

- About clothes

- That's what I got ideas about

- [Door Closes]

It's very hard to live nowadays

Living is very difficult

"The Libra husband

is not an easy man to please

"The monotony of domesticity

is not to his liking

but he is a passionate man

and a respecter of tradition"

All I have to do

is find this Libra man

"The Libra husband is reasonable

"He is a born judge

"and no other zodiacal type

"can order his life

with so much wisdom"

My God!

That's all I need... order

That's all I need... an ordered life

You know, a manager

But he's got to be a Libran

[Man]

Hello

Yeah?

- That sounds like Jerry

- Oh, is that Jerry? For goodness sakes

- [Edie Laughing]

- What are you doing?

Jerry, you're Aquarius, aren't you?

That's what I saw

when I met you, Jerry

- Remember I said the Marble Faun,

and it was terrible

Terrible, the tragedy

connected with the Marble Faun

- You know, I call Jerry "the Marble Faun"

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

- Yeah

- Yeah

Do you have that book here, Edie?

I haven't been able to find it

If you run across it,

I'd like to read it

It's very deep I don't know whether

you... Well, I guess you're up to it

They used to have it

on all the, uh...

I think it was on the high school

reading list The Marble Faun

"The Libra husband

does not seek divorce

"unless the conditions of his life

are not adjustable"

I don't believe in divorce at all

- I think divorce...

- Was your mother divorced or no?

- No

- Separated

Yes, and then my father got a,

got a fake Mexican divorce

and he did have, you know,

what he called another wife

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