As acting breeds go, Elaine Stritch was one of theater's Great Dames. She strayed, from time to time, into movies and television over the course of an astonishing 70 years in show business. And, as she proved in her priceless recurring stint on "30 Rock" as Alec Baldwin's relentlessly cantankerous mother, she was as on her comedic game at 85 as she was at myriad other junctures of her entertainingly self-dramatizing …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:36PM on July 17, 2014