Little Edie must be rolling in her grave and Christine Ebersole should be (rightfully) fuming:

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange will star in an HBO movie adaptation of “Grey Gardens,” the 1975 documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ eccentric cousin and aunt.

The story follows the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of “Big Edie” (Lange) and “Little Edie” Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York’s Long Island.

The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006, though HBO Films was not involved at the time. It’s yet to be determined if the movie will be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion — named Grey Gardens — and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water. The department threatened to kick the pair out of the 28-room mansion before Kennedy Onassis stepped in and paid to help clean it up. Their story was documented by “Gimme Shelter” directors Albert and David Maysles.

She’s playing the big Match Game in the sky …

Brett Somers, an actress and comedienne best known for her years as a panelist on The Match Game, died on September 15, according to a notice on her personal web site. She was 83 and lived in Westport, Connecticut.

Born Audrey Sommers in New Brunswick, Canada, Brett Somers grew up near Portland, Maine. She moved to New York at age 18 to pursue a career in acting and eventually became a U.S. citizen. Somers began her career in the theater and made early television appearances in theatrical programs such as Philco Playhouse, Kraft Theater Playhouse 90 and Robert Montgomery Presents. Her Broadway debut, in the play Maybe Tuesday, lasted for five performances in 1958; elsewhere, she appeared onstage in Happy Ending, Seven Year Itch and The Country Girl opposite her spouse, Jack Klugman.

Somers and Klugman married in 1953 and had two sons, Adam and David; the actress also had a daughter, Leslie, from a previous marriage. She played the recurring role of Klugman’s ex-wife, Blanche, in the TV version of The Odd Couple before the couple separated in 1974; they never divorced.

In the 1970s, Somers became well known as a regular on TV’s The Match Game, in which she traded barbs with her close friend and fellow panelist Charles Nelson Reilly. When Klugman appeared on the first week of the show in 1973, he suggested that producers sign his wife as a regular. She was an immediate hit and remained on the panel for the rest of its nine-year run. In 2003, she shared anecdotes about her career and personal life in “An Evening with Brett Somers,” a popular one-woman cabaret show that played at Danny’s Skylight Room.

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Police: Bald man stole hair-loss treatment

Man caught running away with five bottles of product, officials say

OSSINING, N.Y. - A bald man went into a pharmacy and stole five bottles of a hair loss treatment but was caught while running away, police said.

Mark Hoousendove, 42, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of petty larceny and resisting arrest, Detective Lt. William Sullivan said. The product was worth about $50.

Hoousendove, of Freeport, had just dropped off friends who were visiting an inmate at Sing Sing prison on Sunday when he went into the pharmacy, police said. An officer nearby chased him and grabbed him, they said.

Now, I only see these ads on the Yankees Network, but Giuseppe Franco’s Procede is one of my very favorite things, and I’m guessing it’s what Mr. Hoousendove was after: