A great actress Elaine Stritch dies

[ellenrr]

Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim’s wryly acrid musings on aging, died on Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/theater/elaine-stritch-tart-tongued-broadway-actress-and-singer-is-dead-at-89.html

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. She was "Martha" in "Virginia Woolf" before Liz Taylor.

Hard to even conceive of such a thing.

There was/is a great bio-doc of Stritch. Seems to me I saw it within the last year.

K and R

[ellenrr]

2. didn't know that. I bet she was great. nt

[CBGLuthier]

6. Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me. It is on Netflix Streaming now.

[xchrom]

3. Ladies Who Lunch - Elaine Stritch

[xchrom]

4. Elaine Stritch performs "I'm Still Here"

[Bluenorthwest]

5. A case where the word great is not an exaggeration.

A very long and varied career.

[WI_DEM]

7. Elaine Stritch with Letterman...

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. Kick

Stritch deserves that 5th rec.

C'mon now..........

[markpkessinger]

9. "Here's to the Ladies Who Lunch"

[R3druM]

10. RIP

nt

[Eleanors38]

11. Her performance in Law & Order was remarkable.

Watch that and you'll wonder why older women were/are ever thwarted from T.V. and motion picture roles. Hard-edged, no-nonsense pro if you'd never seen her act before.

[CTyankee]

12. I'll have to look that up, Eleanors38. Sounds very interesting...

[Eleanors38]

14. Played a hard-ass defense atty few wanted to deal with.

The episode I saw her implicitly acknowledging her client's guilt, and hot-wiring a just & somewhat ethical work around. You could tell she was a veteran performer within a minute.

[nuxvomica]

13. I just heard

Devastating news. I used to watch reruns of her show "Two's Company" on the local PBS affil on Sunday mornings while I read the NYT with coffee and bagels. It was a ritual for me and I looked forward to our Sunday mornings together. She played a New York actress renting a house in London and spent all the time trading barbs with her snooty butler. She was the consummate grand lady of the theatre, a potent mixture of elegance and toughness who totally owned every line she read, every lyric she sang.