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The brilliant Elaine Stritch--actress, singer, raconteur--has a face that was made for cinema. Not for the hearts-and-flowers sentiment and blinding movie-star teeth that pass for cinema these days: Stritch's face, with its deadpan allure, the eyes that cut through any pretension--including her own--was made for cinema verite, for movies that attempt to speak the truth. As it stands, Stritch's down-and-dirty, elegant, and imperious manner--she's a high-class broad in a lowdown business--has been captured in two documentaries of note: D. A. Pennebaker's 1970 "Original Cast Album: 'Company' " and Michael Houldey's 1985 " 'Follies' in Concert." In each film, Stritch not only ...