Empty "Gardens"

Is it possible to be haunted by a film that you haven't yet seen?
The time that "Grey Gardens" first entered my awareness is unknown but it's impact on my subconscious is certainly undeniable.
Was it one, two or three years ago that those first images of Big and Little Edie appeared before my eyes, or was it as a small child?
Which current homage has most re-ignited my deep-seated curiosity for the documentary film?
Is is the Off-Broadway Musical? The in-development Drew Barrymore film project? The Rufus Wainwright song title? Or the themed photo shoot featuring Kylie Minogue?
The origin of this unenlightened and ill-informed obsession is not clear. But the fact that the DVD can't be found anywhere, other than a $40 Criterion Edition on Amazon.com, is unforgivable.
An evening NEEDS to be spent with these two women. And, for the love of God, sooner rather than later.

In other "news," all of our thoughts and prayers go out to 13 year old Will Reeve, who lost his mother Dana to cancer early this morning. She seemed to the world to be as brave and spirited a woman as could ever, ever be.
Dana Reeve was the consummate companion, the consummate activist and the consummate human being. To say that she will be sorely missed is beyond understatement.
It isn't truly known in this lifetime why these things happen to our parents and our friends, lung cancer in a 44 year old mother and widow who did not smoke. The only answer imaginable is that it simply is not for us to comprehend.
But, she is above us tonight, and she is not alone.
Our prayers are with her family.
Our prayers are with her son.