Today’s Dr. Bob Prescribes post is a bit different from any other I’ve done to date.  Instead of offering up a recommended recording, or a video, or a book, I’m prescribing a person: the indomitable Elaine Stritch (1924-2014).  Love her or not, she was like a gorilla in your boudoir: impossible to ignore.  She was one-of-a-kind and deserves to be celebrated! Madame Stritch Nearing the End On February 17, 2014, just five months before she passed away on July 17, 2014, at the age of 89, a wheelchair-bound Elaine Stritch appeared onstage at the 92nd Street Y (in New York City) for an interview.  Stritch’s age and infirmity meant nothing; seven particularly good one-liners from that interview are linked below:   The Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor (born 1943) said this about her long-time friend and mentor, Elaine Stritch: “There was always the element of danger with her, and the possibility of dying of embarrassment.”  That there was. Stritch was, in turns, loud, domineering, irascible, volcanic, and funny as hell, a consummate entertainer who carried – and happily celebrated! – her many demons on her sleeve.  A self-professed “gravel voiced broad,” her career – which began in the 1940s – […]