That isn't to say that there aren't moments when she connects (when she does, she's delightful)-there just aren't enough of them. Grey Gardens, for instance, is a perfect illustration of how quickly anyone can go from an orderly life to a slovenly one. Who hasn't had one of the weekends that she describes?
You start off, on a Friday evening, with a plan to be low-key and get some work done, and end up Sunday night with empty food containers and soda cans surrounding the bed you barely got out of, realising that, in the last 48 hours, you moved well into Edith Beale territory.(LA Times)