The comic actor, who has died aged 82, performed a version of herself that became as famous as the songs she sangI interviewed Elaine Stritch six years ago, when she was still in residence at the Carlyle hotel, her New York home of many years and, like a butler in a farce, the perfect foil to her eccentricity. It was a hot day and she wore tiny white tennis shorts, speaking as if everyone around her was deaf. "G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08PM on July 17, 2014