HBO's "Sex and the City" may be on its way out, but it's not going without a swift kick from Elaine Stritch.

The 78-year-old actress, whose free-wheeling one-woman Broadway show, "Elaine Stritch at Liberty," will get the HBO treatment this May, thinks the woman of "Sex" "could use somebody like me around."

Why?

"I think they're naughty," said Stritch, a former convent school girl who somehow remained a virgin till she was 30 and who does her show in a shirt and high heels.

"I'm sorry about this, HBO, but I don't like young women talking the way they talk in the show at all," she said.

Should older women be allowed to?

"Nobody should be able to talk like that," she snapped. "It's offensive to me. The sexual context of that takes away all the romance, the real romance that sex should have with it," she said.

"And Sarah Jessica's [Parker] a good friend of mine," she continued. "I love Sarah Jessica...[but] don't talk that way about men...I'm sorry. I'll probably get hell for that. But I don't care."