How not to tame a Broadway diva Cole Porter once said of Elaine Stritch: 'She talks funnier than the scripts.' So when John Lahr helped the 76-year-old star write her one-woman show, he couldn't win. Instead he kept score

The Sunday Telegraph London | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

Stars always want to talk about the wins; but to understand what made them, you have to hear about the losses; it's the wounds that count and that seek expression in art.

Years ago, Stephen Sondheim told Elaine Stritch, "Your terror works for you." Elaine faced that fear in all its hydra-headed manifestations - solitude, alcoholism, fury, perfectionism. Her performance is a wise-cracking, spiky carapace that covers an altogether more fearful and fragile spirit. "It's a full-time job when you're scared, boy oh boy," she once told me.

"When I was starting out, I never realised that everybody was ...

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