Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me | movie | 2013 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains in the spotlight at eighty-seven years old. Join the uncompromising Tony and Emmy | dG1fLXRsZHl2a3FUcW8

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00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Elaine Strayer.

00:07 I've got a certain amount of fame.

00:08 I've got money.

00:09 I wish I could drive.

00:10 Then I'd really be a menace.

00:14 She's just truthful.

00:16 She's truthful in her acting.

00:17 On a personal level, she's very, very truthful.

00:19 You look good.

00:20 Your hair looks good for a change.

00:25 She is confident and brassy and stylish and gorgeous.

00:30 She doesn't wear pants.

00:31 If we'd both met when we were 35, I have no doubt that we would have had a torn love affair

00:36 that would have ended very badly.

00:38 She is the conduit to a golden age of theater.

00:41 I did Virginia Woolf on Broadway.

00:44 And for the first time in my life, I had an orgasm.

00:51 You can never say that Elaine is guilty of not giving.

00:54 Alec Joan Crawford Baldwin.

00:58 Because her persona is so strong, all that is masking her vulnerability.

01:05 I'm heading right into 87.

01:07 I can do this forever.

01:08 That isn't true.

01:10 It's hard enough to remember Sondheim's lyrics when you don't have diabetes.

01:16 I feel...

01:24 The day I forget your name, we close.

01:30 I feel better when I work.

01:32 Because it's such an escape.

01:36 I think performing is the pump in her heart.

01:40 Here she is, boys.

01:45 She's complicated and she's an eccentric.

01:47 Sing it or you're fired.

01:49 Underneath the crusty exterior, it beats a very warm and caring heart.

01:57 I just pray that I can be at least amusing.

02:08 Bound to be interesting.

02:09 It's about me.

02:11 [laughs]

02:12 [music]

02:12 (upbeat music)

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