eartha kitt

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There is some irony that she died on Christmas Day, when her sultry Yuletide ballad “Santa Baby” always enjoys tremendous airplay…

Singer, dancer, actress, writer… and the greatest Catwoman ever. Orson Welles once called her “the most exciting woman in the world”. Not a bad way to have spent 81 years of life. And a mighty far road to have come from the cotton fields of North, South Carolina.

This was the woman who, in my mind, defined what it truly meant to be sexy. And it had nothing to do with her ravishing good looks. It was Kitt’s unrelenting spirit that enchanted her many admirers. All her life, she was her own person and she never backed down. Eartha Kitt told it like she saw it. It cost her years of a career in the United States following a now-legendary argument at the White House with a wrathful Ladybird ...

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Older women, I have long thought, are potentially much more beautiful than younger women. As proof, I offer this recent photograph of Eartha Kitt (who for many years I have harbored a very deep admiration for):

What an amazing performer. She was the best girl to ever play Catwoman in any medium. And Miss Kitt is not only beautiful and a talented singer and actress, she’s smart, too. I’ll never forget hearing her give the most articulate reason that anyone made for why Bill Clinton should have been impeached: because the White House belongs to the American people, not to the President who’s temporarily living there.

So now you know one of my more peculiar secrets: I think Eartha Kitt, now 81 years young, ranks high among the hottest and loveliest women in recorded history.

Now look at this photo that was taken over the weekend of Madonna, who ...

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