James Gandolfini joked at the 60th anniversary of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting at the home of L.A. Reid: “Elaine [Stritch] has a huge crush on Alec Baldwin. She also seems to like me a lot. It seems she has a thing for fat guys . . . You can tell Alec I said that!” Gov. Paterson, Kate Mulgrew, Whoopi Goldberg and Ruby Dee were still laughing when Stritch replied, “As a student, I would walk from the Convent of Sacred Heart on 91st and Fifth down to the New School for acting classes because I believed that actresses could not be fat.” Stritch paused, looked at Gandolfini and said, “It seems the same isn’t true for male actors.”