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"  Photo: Getty Images On bi-annual car trips to visit my grandmother in South Jersey, my father would play various Sondheim albums\u2014compilations like Sondheim! The Birthday Concert and Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall. My sister and I would impersonate every Broadway star&amp;#039;s voice, but I especially loved singing along with Elaine Stritch to &amp;quot;The Ladies Who Lunch.&amp;quot; Stritch passed away today at the age of 89.      I knew every word to the song, even as a six-year-old, my favorite line being, of course, &amp;quot;Does anyone still wear a hat?&amp;quot; I went to theater camp for seven years (hey, French Woods!), where Broadway stars like Elaine Stritch were goddesses. Instead of making out with boys and shaving our legs, we talked about Stritch&amp;#039;s performance in Company, in which she first sang &amp;quot;The Ladies Who Lunch,&amp;quot; or her turn as Gypsy Rose Lee. I anxiously awaited her revival of A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta-Jones where she played the hysterically dry Madame Armfeldt. And while some came to see Zeta-Jones, I only had eyes for &amp;quot;Liasons.&amp;quot;      And can we talk about her show-stopping performance in Monster in Law?      These are some of my favorite memories of Stritch: That voice and that punchy personality will never be forgotten.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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