Santa's baby Eartha Kitt died toda y

[malaise]

Rest in peace sister - you were a champion for our cause.

http://www.visionaryproject.org/kitteartha/

[pitohui]

1. sorry to hear it, may she rest in peace

perhaps she hung on just long enough to see one last christmas

[ColbertWatcher]

2. NOOOOOO!

Rest in peace, you beautiful woman.

[malaise]

8. Sadly yes

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/12/25/eartha.kitt.obit/?iref=hpmostpop
<snip>
Singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died, her publicist, Patty Freedman, told CNN on Thursday.

Kitt, 81, died in New York, where she was being treated for colon cancer, Freedman said. Her daughter, Kitt Shapiro, was by her side.

She was performing almost until the end, taping a PBS special six weeks ago in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to air in February.

Her recording of the saucy Christmas song "Santa Baby" was certified gold last week.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. I didn't know she was sick.

:cry:

She will truly be missed.

[jobycom]

3. Refused to play before segregated audiences.

RIP, Eartha Kitt.

[Adelante]

4. Great song, great singer, great woman

RIP :(

[AlCzervik]

5. How sad, she was a great talent. Here she is singing Santa Baby.

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

[malaise]

6. Hubby dug up the CD during our lunch

with friends earlier. I loved Eartha Kitt. My dad adored her.

[rpannier]

7. Best Cat Woman ever

[malaise]

9. By some distance

as well. A classy woman through and through!

[Subdivisions]

12. ...

[malaise]

15. Lovely pix of Eartha

the Cat. :hi:

[Individualist]

20. She could purr like no other

RIP wonderful lady!

[Donnachaidh]

25. oh gods yes!

Always went as Eartha's Catwoman for Halloween....!

[Subdivisions]

10. Wow, how surreal that she would die on Christmas day...Goodbye, Ma'am. n/t

[malaise]

13. Amazing indeed

but Eartha perfected timing. :D

[ChazII]

14. Condolences to her family

and may she rest in peace.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Good-bye, Eartha!

[G_j]

17. She pissed off Lady Bird

http://www.answers.com/topic/eartha-kitt

<snip>
It was not to last, however. In 1968, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson invited Kitt to a celebrity women's luncheon at the White House to offer her views on inner-city youth. Taking the event seriously, not as a publicity stunt, Kitt pointedly criticized the Vietnam War and its impact on poor minorities. An infuriated Johnson put out the word that Kitt's rudeness had reduced the First Lady to tears, and Kitt found herself essentially blacklisted across the country -- afraid of incurring the government's wrath, venues simply refused to book her. It was later revealed that Kitt was made the subject of a secret federal investigation; her house was bugged and she was tailed by Secret Service agents. When the FBI failed to find evidence that Kitt was a subversive, the CIA compiled a highly speculative dossier that attempted to portray her as a nymphomaniac. Unable to find work in America, Kitt moved to Europe, where she would spend most of the following decade. In 1974, she courted controversy once again by touring South Africa; although she performed for white-only audiences, her show was racially integrated, and she raised money for black schools by selling autographs.

Kitt finally returned to the U.S. for good in 1978 as a cast member of the Broadway show Timbuktu, an all-black adaptation of Kismet. The audience greeted her with a standing ovation, and she went on to earn a second Tony nomination; President Carter even welcomed her back personally. Her career in America rehabilitated, Kitt returned to the cabaret/supper club circuit, and also revived her film career starting in the late '80s, appearing in comedies like Erik the Viking, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Eddie Murphy's Boomerang. She recorded a series of albums for the ITM label during the '90s, and earned a Grammy nomination (Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance) for 1994's cocktail-lounge set Back in Business on DRG. She also continued her acting career, and toward the end of the '90s she moved into voice-over work as well, appearing in the animated series The Wild Thornberrys and the Disney film The Emperor's New Groove. In 2000, she received a third Tony nomination for her work in the musical drama The Wild Party. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

[Warpy]

18. While all the bluenoses were pursing their lips and tut-tutting her

over speaking up at that luncheon, I admired her raw courage.

I don't care if it was considered inappropriate at lunch with our temporary queen to say the lunch was nice but the world wasn't. It had to be said and Ms. Kitt had the fortitude to say it.

She was invited to blow sunshine up their asses and she told them the truth, instead.

Rest well, sister. You've earned your peace.

[malaise]

19. Eartha was one brave woman

but after her childhood she feared no one. I love people with genuine convictions.

[Bluebear]

23. A totally awesome woman

[G_j]

21. she was awesome!

Good bye Eartha, Thank You!

[tilsammans]

22. RIP, Eartha

A tantalizing but tough lady she was.

[undeterred]

24. I just heard that song yesterday- what a classic.

The woman and the song.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. Another unrealized love ........

.... Rest well, Eartha.

[Fovea]

27. One of my two adolescent crushes!

I will remember you as a near crazy making blend of talent, grace, and poise.
She was like a walking advertisement for women.

Your poster bothered my Step-Father, but my Mom liked it.


Goodbye beautiful one!

[malaise]

28. I didn't have a poster of her but you expressed me

feelings re Eartha. She was so classy.

[Fovea]

31. Diana Rigg

was on the wall next to Eartha.

Both were wearing black skin tight leather....

Anyway, she moved me.

[malaise]

33. The only poster I had other than West Indian cricketers

was John Lennon.

[Fovea]

37. I had posters

of Yes and Genesis

And that wonderful quote poster of Ben Shawn's ultimate
condemnation of McCarthyism.

-- You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

He was the actor Wallace Shawn's (Never bet with a Sicilian when death is on the line.')
father, and a newspaperman.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

34. Mine too.

Do you happen to remember a movie she was in around 1960?
All black cast and she had a brother'Trader Frank.'
I'd love to have a copy but can't remember the name and
have not been able to find it in her filmography.
She was a very special person, may she rest in piece.

[LWolf]

29. .

Peaceful journey, Ms. Kitt.

:cry:

We've said goodbye to too many this year.

[Dervill Crow]

30. Wonderful link. Wonderful lady.

She's one of a kind.

[goclark]

32. A real champion. Rest in peace

[JackRiddler]

35. I first knew her as Catwoman!

May she rest in peace.

[G_j]

36. k

[malaise]

38. Nice slideshow

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28389444/displaymode/1107/s/2/

[Greyhound]

39. So sad. Another good one moves on. n/t

:kick: & R