Cancer has claimed two political activists and entertainment figures.
Harold Pinter, 1930-2008, was a playwright, screenwriter, actor, Nobel laureate, conscientious objector, socialist, and major critic of Bush and Blair.
Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008, was a singer and actress whose public opposition to the Vietnam War resulted in her being “blacklisted” for years. She was sophistication personified, and no one who has heard her voice will ever forget it.
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One of my heroes growing up was Miss Kitt. I just thought she was the cat’s meow in terms of working her way up the class ladder, defining herself as a person with her own steadfast beliefs, unpopular as they may have been and being a strong independent woman with unbelievable talent.
Santa Baby will never have the same sense of fun.
She was in that small group of people who were so good that they took a role or a song and made it theirs to the point that no one could hope to improve on the performance.
I assume that most Americans are totally unaware of what an international star she was from her “exile”.