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CellarDweller:

sad news on the holiday!

 :'( :'( :'( :'(




Eartha Kitt, sultry 'Santa Baby' singer, dies

By POLLY ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer


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, a family spokesman said. She was 81.

Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday in Connecticut of colon cancer.

Kitt, a self-proclaimed "sex kitten" famous for her catlike purr, was one of America's most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and nabbing a third nomination. She also was nominated for several Tonys and two Grammys.

Her career spanned six decades, from her start as a dancer with the famed Katherine Dunham troupe to cabarets and acting and singing on stage, in movies and on television. She persevered through an unhappy childhood as a mixed-race daughter of the South and made headlines in the 1960s for denouncing the Vietnam War during a visit to the White House.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_en_tv/obit_eartha_kitt

CellarDweller:
Eartha Kitt - Where Is My Man?


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5m88CoGLno[/youtube]

CellarDweller:
Eartha Kitt - I Love Men


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbg5i6TI5xg[/youtube]

delalluvia:
RIP  :(

Lynne:
The passing of an icon.   :'(

You know, there's an allusion to her in Latter Days:

Keith is played by Erik Palladino.  He is an AIDS patient, speaking with Christian, played by Wes Ramsey, who is making his first delivery of a meal to Keith as a volunteer for Project Angelfood:

Keith:  "Sometime I read people and I...I pick up the Oracle at Delphi"
Christian:  "And sometimes I growl at people, doesn't make me Eartha Kitt."

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