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Elaine Stritch -- No Halloween Costume Required

Posted Oct 29th 2007 11:43AM by TMZ Staff

Having to explain a joke usually kills it, but Elaine Stritch went out of her way to let TMZ know she's one scary-looking woman.


Cameras caught the 82-year-old Broadway baby leaving the Guggenheim in New York on Saturday, curlers in hair, when our photog asked her Halloween plans. Elaine replied, "I'm just going to go out as usual!"

Moments later, she banged a U-turn, and not happy with the reaction to her joke, she told the cameraman, "You didn't seem to get the point, the point is, I scare people when it's not Halloween, so when Halloween comes, I just go out." She left our cameraman in stritches.

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1. LOL..I love old ladies :X!

Posted at 2:15PM on Oct 30th 2007 by CrystalHasAnOpinion

2. thats just mean.

Posted at 2:32PM on Oct 29th 2007 by freak

3. Poltergeist .....rofl..

Posted at 2:48PM on Oct 29th 2007 by pepper

4. this is what i get first for....ayyy veyyyyyyy

Posted at 2:35PM on Oct 29th 2007 by freak

5. Perhaps the question was a little mean-spirited?

Regardless, Elaine Stritch is a treasure. Her theater and movie and TV roles are beautifully crafted. She is a true living legend.

Besides, not everyone has to be spray painted orange, stuffed full of silicone, just getting out of rehab (or jail) and without underwear to be written about!!!!

If you write about "real" stars, you know, people with talent, you would be doing us a great service.

Posted at 2:36PM on Oct 29th 2007 by AnneM

6. ...ELAINE...ur AWESOME!!!...u handed that low class idiot well!!!!!!!!!!!....a TRUE STAR!!!!!!!

Posted at 2:40PM on Oct 29th 2007 by jr

7. She is my very favorite performer in America.
You go girl - I wish you nothing but that which makes you happy.

Posted at 3:04PM on Oct 29th 2007 by kadengirl

8. She is a wonderful person and she has all my respect-------God love her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:02PM on Oct 29th 2007 by Barbara

9. she is a wonderful wonderful talented woman.....she knew just how to handle the cameraman......
tmz...give these people respect....they deserve it....she has done more creative roles in her long career than these so called "camera" people.

Posted at 3:40PM on Oct 29th 2007 by another day

10. No, dear tmz, she didn't kill the joke, she just had to explain it to your moron cameraman.
After she said it, he was probably drooling and looking confused.

Posted at 4:06PM on Oct 29th 2007 by hader

11. Go after the pointless ones (Britney, Paris et al) all you want but leave the legends alone.

Posted at 6:15PM on Oct 29th 2007 by Karen Walker

12. Elaine Stritch is a classic. I saw her off Broadway one woman show a few years ago and she was brilliant. The woman is 82 for crissakes. I doubt that Paris or Lindsay or Britney will still be considered celebs if they (God forbid) make it to that age.

Posted at 9:45PM on Oct 29th 2007 by Lensmanct

13. She is fabulous and still going strong....adorable video and she is so fashionable, to boot. God bless her!

Posted at 8:07PM on Oct 29th 2007 by kathyc

14. That broad kicks ass!

Posted at 10:16PM on Oct 29th 2007 by April

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Posted at 5:28AM on Dec 11th 2007 by Robin