RIP. Eartha Kitt

[colonel c]

Eartha Kitt dies at 81 RIP.

She appeared on the Jools Holland Later show not so long ago. Game old bird to the last.

[Elf kit80]

RIP!

[darronwall]

rip "the origonal catwoman!"

[ZR1cliff]

My father is a great fan of hers and as a child I remember this little tune.
God Bless her.

Eartha Kitt: Old fashioned millionaire
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8F46AJCdMTw&feat...

[seasonal central]

Story -
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5...

[robinhood21]

R.I.P.

[ZR1cliff]

seasonal central said:

Story -
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5...

I remember reading about this quote before, she sounded like a person that wasn't afraid to speak her mind.

Kitt was plainspoken about causes she believed in. Her anti-war comments at the White House came as she attended a White House luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson.

"You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the group of about 50 women. "They rebel in the street. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam."

For four years afterward, Kitt performed almost exclusively overseas. She was investigated by the FBI and CIA, which allegedly found her to be foul-mouthed and promiscuous.

"The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth — in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth — you get your face slapped and you get put out of work," Kitt told Essence magazine two decades later.

[Tunku]

That is just not fair... Rest well my fair Lady...

[Tunku]

Tunku said:

That is just not fair... Rest well my fair Lady...

You and Pinter, who would have guessed that one? eh?

Makes me feel bloody old...

[LHDisbest]

RIP

Her name is used daily im my vocabulary as slang for something else....

[Eric Mc]

darronwall said:

rip "the origonal catwoman!"

She wasn't - although she did make an apperance in the 1960s TV show as Catwoman. Other girls who appeared in those 1960s Batman series (and the 1966 film) were Julie Newmar and Lee Merriwether.

[Andy Zarse]

It's ironic, I suppose, that she should die of colon cancer.