MARK KENNEDY, The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Actors Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Laura Benanti and Holland Taylor and writer Liz Smith led a tearful and raucous tribute Monday to Elaine Stritch, the funny and irascible theater star who put the broad in Broadway.
"This event would have pleased her to no end because, for one, it's all about her," deadpanned Lane, who called her "a brilliant force of nature" and hoped she was in "God's house seats."
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– wes rusch, friend,
las vegas, NV, Jan 06, 2015
"I first saw her and fell in love with her in a delicate balance. I luved when she spilled the screwdriver
and said f* this I will have straight vodka. so I saw she was performing ..."
– wes rusch, Friend,
las vegas, NV, Jan 06, 2015
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