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Eartha Kitt, sultry singer and dancer, dies at 81
AP via Breitbart ^ | 12/25/2008 | POLLY ANDERSON

Posted on 12/25/2008 2:03:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

Edited on 12/25/2008 2:09:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

A family friend says Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died. She was 81.

Andrew Freedman says Kitt died Thursday of colon cancer and was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.


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KEYWORDS: hollywood; music; obituary
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To: Jet Jaguar

Rest in Peace Madam Zeroni.

My kids all loved you the best from Holes.


21 posted on 12/25/2008 2:25:49 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: Jet Jaguar
RIP Catwoman.


22 posted on 12/25/2008 2:26:21 PM PST by angkor ("All you could hope for ...in the world's most august deliberative body." - Baldwin on Franken)
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To: Jet Jaguar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5WVkl_f7_E


23 posted on 12/25/2008 2:26:28 PM PST by 353FMG (The sky is not falling, yet.)
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To: Rastus

Kellie Pickler did a passable version recently. But none will ever top Eartha’s.


24 posted on 12/25/2008 2:27:37 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: Rastus
Julie Newmar was the original Catwoman. Kitt took on the role after Newmar and Lee Meriwether.

Hmmm, I thought it was the other way around. My mistake.

Newmar and Kitt played the role in the series. Meriwether played the role in the movie.

25 posted on 12/25/2008 2:28:01 PM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

I’m sorry she died ....but I couldn’t stand to listen to her sing!


26 posted on 12/25/2008 2:32:54 PM PST by lonestar
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To: RightWhale

Didn’t realize she was 81 years old. So she was about 40 years of age playing Catwoman on the Batman series.


27 posted on 12/25/2008 2:33:19 PM PST by tflabo
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To: Jet Jaguar

I just saw her doing Santa Baby for the first time, yesterday.

My thoughts are with her family and friends. I know she performed for President Bush and his wife, merely two-three years ago, and looked and sounded wonderful.


28 posted on 12/25/2008 2:36:51 PM PST by ConservativeMind (What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Loved her TV show in the ‘60s. Prayers up for a great entertainer.


29 posted on 12/25/2008 2:40:49 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([In the primaries, vote "FOR". In the general, vote "AGAINST". ...See? Easy.])
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To: justlurking

Maybe not the first, but the best. So perhaps “The Original” may still be in order.

God Speed Eartha, you were a true talent and made this world just a little better place.


30 posted on 12/25/2008 2:42:33 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Jet Jaguar

One of her stranger accomplishments -

She did the definitive cover of “Waray-waray”, which is really odd, as that is a Filipino “redneck” piece. Just goes to show that she could take ANY material and make it hers. People remember her in Manila.

http://www.mabuhayradio.com/content/view/685/51/


31 posted on 12/25/2008 2:44:09 PM PST by buwaya
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

was she black listed in the entertainment biz for a bit? I seem to remember hearing about that sometime long ago.


32 posted on 12/25/2008 2:44:25 PM PST by bobby.223
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To: Jet Jaguar

Eartha Kitt also has the great distinction of having lashed out at Lady Bird Johnson at a White House function, enough to make her cry.

Invited to a reception about juvenile delinquency, she snapped at Lady Bird about black children, “They don’t want to go to school because they’re going to be snatched from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.”

To put this in context, VP Humphrey was attending the National Book Awards ceremony, where the novelist Mitchell Goodman screamed at him “We are burning children in Vietnam!” The anti-war pressure was intense, mean and often violent.

Later, Eartha Kitt was invited back to the White House, and took that opportunity to snap out at President Nixon, both over Vietnam and racism in America.


33 posted on 12/25/2008 2:47:07 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I guess we are better off without her.


34 posted on 12/25/2008 2:52:07 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Save America......... put out lots of wafarin (it's working))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

35 posted on 12/25/2008 2:57:40 PM PST by wolfpat (Revolt, and re-establish the Constitution as the law of the land!)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Just WOW!


36 posted on 12/25/2008 3:00:07 PM PST by wolfpat (Revolt, and re-establish the Constitution as the law of the land!)
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To: bert

President George W. Bush and Laura Bush join entertainers Eartha Kitt, left, and Cathy
Rigby, center, along with Santa Claus, invited children and The Singing Angels choir
director Charles Eversole, right, on stage Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, at the 2006 Christmas
Pageant of Peace and the 83rd lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in
Washington, D.C. White House photo by Kimberlee Hewitt. (Click pic for link to full story.)

37 posted on 12/25/2008 3:00:25 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

And to think Eartha Kitt originally hailed from just a few miles south of here in the town of North, SC.

I was about to listen to “Santa Baby” on youtube when I read this.

Miss her as Catwoman, too. I remember when Eartha gave Lady Bird a piece of her mind at the White House (biting the hand that invited her); it was a shot heard round the world in early ‘68.


38 posted on 12/25/2008 3:01:33 PM PST by elcid1970 (O Muslim! My cartridges are dipped in pig grease.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

My wife recorded some episodes of the old Nate King Cole show from BET. He had her on as a guest and did a couple of sets with her. I made the mistake of remarking to my wife how incredibly sexy she was. (She deleted those episodes to “free up some space” on the DVR.)

Actually, I surprised even colored folks could get away with the sex kittenish shtick she was pulling, back in the day.


39 posted on 12/25/2008 3:01:56 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Amazingly talented singer. Also a very good Catwoman, though I preferred Julie Newmar in that role (rrrroowwwl!)

RIP, Ms. Kitt.


40 posted on 12/25/2008 3:04:49 PM PST by DemforBush (Millions of conservatives have got your back, Sarah!)
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