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"I'm frantically spinning that as an advantage because I feel like most people who interacted with her had a very strong reaction to her ... Since I never met her in the flesh, I lack any bias."

The author will also lack perspective. I worked with Elaine Stritch. Some of the things she did are better understood when you've watched her in unguarded moments. She plainly makes it clear in "Shoot Me" that when she knows she's being watched, she's "on" and wants to "act." There's a point in the documentary, I think when she's in the kitchen, where she tells the cameraman "Keep the camera on me, I want you to follow me." That's what you get if you haven't interacted with her when she's not "on."

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#2
Posted: 3/25/15 at 11:10am

I sure hope Ms. Jacobs gets this right.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#3
Posted: 3/25/15 at 9:18pm

^ Even if she doesn't, anybody enough of a fan to read the book will know better anyhow.

Sick, pathetic POS

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#4
Posted: 3/25/15 at 9:25pm

"I think I'm the only person in New York who not only never met Elaine Stritch, but never saw her perform live. I'm frantically spinning that as an advantage…"

Frantically spinning. Deep deep deep sigh.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#5
Posted: 3/26/15 at 6:50am

Such a dumb thing to say in a press release. However, I read the material submitted to publishers, and it was very good. And to be fair, many biographers never meet their subjects.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#6
Posted: 3/26/15 at 10:40am

She's an excellent writer. Before she was at the Times, she made a name for herself at The New Yorker with a couple of great articles about Zappos and Spanx.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#7
Posted: 3/26/15 at 11:10am

They should've hired you, PJ.

My name is neither "adam" nor "greer."

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#8
Posted: 3/26/15 at 12:31pm

PJ your second sentence made me laugh out loud. I know you're being serious but it's a perfect sounding punchline.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#9
Posted: 3/26/15 at 1:07pm

Spanx you.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#10
Posted: 8/27/18 at 12:32pm

It's been over three years , is this still going forward, is it being worked on or was it dropped? Does anyone know? Has anyone heard of people being interviewed for the book? Just curious.

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Alexandra Jacobs to pen Elaine Stritch biography...#11
Posted: 8/27/18 at 4:13pm

She was on the New York Times Book Review Podcast last week to talk about Jamie Bernstein's memoir Famous Father Girl (which, incidentally is now on my reading list), and she mentioned how she was working on the Stritch biography. No big details or anything, but yes she is working hard on it still.

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