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I gather from anecdotes that part of Grey Gardens’ power as a documentary is that the same person, on different viewings, can feel wildly different reactions to the Beales and their intertwined and literally messy lives. Yesterday I watched it for the first time, and one of my reactions was curiosity about Jerry Torre, the young handyman Little Edie called the Marble Faun. I googled him and it turns out he’s still alive, and a stone-carver. As a teenager he really did look like the statue from the Hawthorne novel.

OK, the third time I installed the zipper it turned out ok. Now I just have to hem the thing.

In other news, ages ago at OCAD I had a teacher in my first year called Colette Whiten -- she'd done some interesting stuff over the years, beginning in the 1970s with plaster body-casting projects, and then suddenly switching to embroideries and beadwork based on blown-up news photos. Anyway, she's cool, and now she's co-recipient of a Governer-General's award.

I saw the hawk again on Friday -- I was mistaken before -- it *is* a harrier. I saw the other two circling higher up this time.