

For those unfamiliar with the Eloise oeuvre, the children’s book series began in 1955 and centered around Eloise, a little girl in residence at the Plaza Hotel with a wild imagination, a very particular way of talking, and the benefit of having few rules or responsibilities, and thus seemingly all the freedom in the world.

In the first few minutes of HBO’s new, Lena Dunham-produced documentary It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise, Dunham, Gevinson, and Lebowitz all extoll the virtues (or “virtues”) of the Plaza Hotel’s most famous and inimitable-if fictional-resident ever: Eloise. Question: What book can bring Lena Dunham, Tavi Gevinson, and Fran Lebowitz together in unanimous praise? Still from It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise
