Eartha Kitt, sultry singer and dancer, dies at 81

AP via Breitbart ^ | 12/25/2008 | POLLY ANDERSON

[Jet Jaguar]

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.

[SevenofNine]

Yeah I was surpise I check out stuff but I been in and out today I have nice Christmas

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Yes! Stupify'in Jones! Julie Newmar!

Beats Ertha Kitt by a mile!

[Cacique]

RIP

[SevenofNine]

I find that morbid funny LOL!

Even SS didn’t like him LOL!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****So long Lyndon, you were a sorry bastard. ****

“Today we make America safe by taking guns out of the hands of criminals”...LBJ when he signed that travesty the 1968 gun control act into law.

[Jet Jaguar]

“I have nice Christmas”

I am glad. Mine was pretty good as well.

[Gondring]

As I was saying, the compari...

[Gondring]

I thought you were going to say the put a few slugs in him to be sure... ;-)

[Dacus943]

I loved her (as Yzma) in the “The Emperor’s New Groove.”

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

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

Yes, she was blacklisted by that paragon of evil, George Dubya Bu...

...Um...

Actually, she was blacklisted by that avatar of the Leftist virtue, LBJ, for making an anti-Vietnam remark. Now, show me one performer, just one, against whom GWB acted despite all the mud slung at him and his use of military power. Just one.

[supremedoctrine]

My God, those are the most perfect pair of legs I have EVER seen.

[SuziQ]

Oh, yeah! I forgot about Holes! That was a great movie!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

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

I'm surprised that people of today can get away with the "colored folks" shtick.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***My God, those are the most perfect pair of legs I have EVER seen.***

Just for you.

Brstd Ertha Kitt all to pieces doesn't she!

[Theodore R.]

I recall reading about her once chewing out Lady Bird Johnson in public. I suppose her punishment was not to live until Jan. 20, 2009, to see her formal liberation.

[BradyLS]

Agreed. I can’t wait to see the “race” boxes and lines removed from forms and surveys.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The show was originally broadcast on NBC in 1956-1957, when absolutely no one would have been offended by the term “colored folks”. IMHO, seeing it today, it was one of the best varieties shows on television. Nat (I hope you're not offended I don't refer to him as “Mr. Cole”, he was my elder and we were never close personally) got all kinds of stars, white and colored, and put them in entertaining situations. Eartha Kitt, btw, was half white, one fourth Cherokee and one fourth Negro. It is probably more accurate to call her colored, i.e., not a European of the Caucasian persuasion, as she was only one quarter “Black”.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Now, if can you find Cab Calloway on the NKC show. He does the absolute best “It Ain’t Necessarily So”. I can’t find him doing it anywhere on U-tube. Sammy Davis Jr. and Paul Tibbets seem to have left their mark on the role, but I prefer Cab’s interpertation. I found him doing it on the Sullivan show, but it seems bowdlerized and the chorus detracts.

[RipSawyer]

Actually, I surprised even colored folks could get away with the sex kittenish shtick she was pulling, back in the day.
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Don’t you remember “Fever” by Peggy Lee?

[RipSawyer]

If character were to be judged by the ability to accept unwarranted abuse without retaliation George W. Bush would be known as the only saint ever to win the presidency of the USA.