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December 25, 2008
Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008
Eartha Kitt died today at age 81.
From the N.Y. Times obituary:
Her show-business break came on a lark, when a friend dared her to audition for the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. She passed the audition and permanently escaped the cycle of poverty and abuse that defined her life till then.But she took the steeliness with her, in a willful, outspoken manner that mostly served her career, except once. In 1968 she was invited to a White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot." The remark reportedly caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to the only derailment in Ms. Kitt’s career. (Ms. Kitt claimed that the C.I.A. drafted a negative memo that referred to her as a nymphomaniac.)
Filed under Music | permalink | December 25, 2008 at 06:19 PM
Comments
Eartha Kitt wast best known as a cat.
But of course she was much more than that.
She was a husky-voiced singer,
a cabaret-dancing swinger,
but our Kitt-cat is now road-kill flat.
Posted by: Mort Reimer at Dec 26, 2008 12:08:52 PM
Hello users of the web I loved
Eartha Kitt she was a bad ass cat woman and she played a sassy older lady in Boomerang she was not to long ago in PDX her birthday would have been January 27 she will be missed.
Posted by: Dee Dee at Dec 25, 2008 10:13:30 PM
