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Well, I think Judy might quibble with who did the "no pants" look first. So few stage performers translate well to film and television. She possessed her space. Like Liza today, the voice is gone as are the dance moves. But she still keeps on keeping on. I saw Barbara Cook, the original Marian The Librarian, maybe 25 years ago, she had lost much of her range, she danced while sitting down, but she still had "it."

Thought the AS-Man/Boytoy God as well as others might enjoy the read: http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/eyes-wide-shut-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman Eyes Wide Shut, as well as a certain closet door.

Good bio/look-back from LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-elaine-stritch-appreciation-column.html Their formal obit: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-elaine-stritch-20140718-story.html

No one. They are just pooped out, literally. Best regards, RA1

Coca-Cola Introduces New 30-Liter Size News • products • business • ISSUE 30•11 • Oct 22, 1996 ATLANTA—The Coca-Cola Corporation held a press conference yesterday to announce that its soft drinks will soon be available exclusively in 30-liter plastic bottles. According to company spokespeople, Coke's decision to sell its product in what many consider to be overly large containers is not based on a specific study or survey of consumer demands, but rather on the company's desire to make a resounding display of its corporate might. The new bottles take up an enormous amount of display space. Several major soft-drink companies attempted to improve on the standard two-liter size bottle by introducing a three-liter size in 1985, but the new size failed because of difficulties with storage and carbonation loss. "The three-liter didn't fail because it was too big, but because it was not big enough," Coca-Cola CEO Vic Hertner said. "With our new 30-liter size, that won't be a problem. Two liters is nothing. I could urinate two liters for you right now. But 30 liters? That's untouchable." The new plastic bottle is nearly four feet tall, and weighs 274 pounds when filled with Coke. In development tests, it took an average of three men to lift the new bottle. The product will fit in an average refrigerator, but only when all other products and shelving have been removed. Most inconvenient of all, the new Coke will go flat if not drunk within 17 minutes, even if it is promptly recapped. The Coca-Cola Corporation does not see these factors as drawbacks. "By requiring three men to lift the bottle, our new product will encourage a sense of community," Hertner said. "The popular image of the lonely soda drinker wasting his life away in solitude will no longer be relevant, because anyone wanting to drink the new Coke will need two buddies to get the soda home, and at least 10 buddies to drink it all. The quick loss of carbonation might lead to tiny problems, but what are people going to do? Stop drinking Coke? I think not." Sociologists see Coke's plan to manufacture the 30-liter bottle as the logical next step. "It makes sense," Stanford Professor Edmund Tillerton said. "Americans like big things. Big sky, big cars, big stereo speakers, big dicks and big TV sets. It would follow that we would like big bottles of Coke. We like things to be larger than life, and that's what the new Coke size is." Coke stressed that the new 30-liter bottle would not be merely a new size option, but will soon be the only size option. "We're phasing out the smaller cans and bottles, as well as two-liter sizes," Hertner said. "We're confident that people will take to the new 30-liter size. Besides, they won't have a choice. We own Minute Maid as well. Soon, all orange juice will only be available in 30-liter sizes. Fruitopia as well. We will buy controlling stock in every beverage company and force them to follow suit. We are very confident. Did I mention that we own a small nation? If the people of this country don't like the newly sized product, we'll simply declare war. We will bury you." Consumers are eager to sample the new size. "I like Coke a lot, so it would follow that I would like a lot of Coke," Linda Jillerman of Cincinnati said. "For the last 13 years, I've been working on a mechanism to funnel Coke into larger containers. I had to quit my job to do this, but it was worth it. Now, with the new size, Coke does all the work! I'll be able to get my old job back!" The new size is ready for the public, and the public is ready for it. After considering "Coka-Munga" and "The Shitload," executives settled on "Family Size" as the product's official name. An extensive promotional campaign for the new size is also in the works. The Coca-Cola company is considering exhuming the corpse of wrestling legend Andre The Giant for use as the product's spokesman. If Andre is chosen, Coca-Cola will reanimate him in the same laboratories where the Coca-Cola head executives were cloned. "Ve velcome zees challenge," head scientist Günther Brauerhauer said. http://www.theonion.com/articles/cocacola-introduces-new-30liter-size,1696/

Yesterday at 4:35 PM The Majestic Elaine Stritch Had No Use for Pants BY VÉRONIQUE HYLAND NewYork Magazine Around 2007, the media went into a tailspin over the supposed epidemic of starlets wearing shirts without pants. Mary-Kate Olsen and Sienna Miller wore only opaque tights under their shirts, to the scolding of many. "Sienna Miller, did you look in the mirror before leaving the house?" nagged PopSugar. "What was she thinking?" keened People StyleWatch of an Olsen grunge-inspired (and pantsless) look. These fevered outlets seemed to be forgetting that one woman, and one woman only, lit the tights-as-pants dynamite and it wasn't trousers antagonist Lady Gaga or recent innovator Cara Delevingne. It was OG starlet Elaine Stritch, who passed away today at 89. Stritch famously eschewed pants, preferring a uniform of an oversize white shirt and opaque black Wolford tights (''Mention them, maybe I can get a free pair,'' she once told an interviewer). The look became an on-and off-stage uniform. A New Yorker review of her show at the Café Carlyle noted she was wearing "nothing resembling pants." She was also known for her love of hats immortalized in the Sondheim line "Does anyone still wear a hat?" and oversize round glasses. The reasoning beyond her preference for tights was more opaque than the stockings themselves. In an awkward Indiewire interview, Stritch avoided giving a reason for her choice. Well, you don't have to worry about packing pants. ES: No pants? You don't accumulate pants. ES: I don't understand. You don't wear pants. I was trying to make a joke. ES: I don't know what you mean. I'd like to get the joke. Chiemi Karasawa: No, because you're famous for wearing your tights and your men's shirts. ES: Oh, tights! And for not wearing pants. ES: I honest to God don't know what you're talking about. I wear slacks. I'm quite serious, I don't understand what you're talking about. CK: Because whenever you perform you wear tights. ES: I wear tights! CK: And so people consider that you don't wear pants. ES: But I don't call tights pants. CK: That's what he's saying. ES: I see, OK. Alright, let's press on. Pants-tights confusion aside, Stritch made the uniform iconic, and she never abandoned it. Even last year, she arrived to a photo shoot for a New York Times profile wearing a Detroit Athletic Club T-shirt and tights. She will be missed. http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/07/majestic-elaine-stritch-had-no-use-for-pants.html?mid=facebook_thecutblog