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The Purr Is Silenced
I got off to a bad start the time I interviewed Eartha Kitt. Asking her about an upcoming gig at Foxwoods Casino in 1995, she hissed, "I am not a gig!" Well, no. Kitt, who died Christmas Day at 81, was far more than that. But for more than a generation...Tags: Eartha Kitt, Christmas, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jack Anderson, Central Intelligence Agency
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Eartha Kitt dies at 81; TV's Catwoman, sultry singer of 'Santa Baby'
Associated PressEartha 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. She was 81. Kitt, whose saucy rendition of "Santa Baby" became a holiday pop music...Tags: Music, Cancer, St. Louis Blues, Revlon Incorporated, Connecticut
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Eartha Kitt, Sultry 'Santa Baby' Singer, Dies
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...Tags: Music, XL Center, Cancer, St. Louis Blues, Westport Country Playhouse
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Eartha Kitt, sultry 'Santa Baby' singer, dies at 81
Associated Press WriterEartha 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...Tags: Music, Cancer, St. Louis Blues, Revlon Incorporated, Jamie Foxx
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Eartha Kitt, an appreciation
Even as a pre-adolescent growing up in subarctic Rochester, N.Y., watching Eartha Kitt's Catwoman taunt Adam West's Batman always made me feel a little, um, hot. Julie Newmar, Emma Peel and the rest of the leather-jumpsuited superwomen/femmes fatales of...Tags: Olvera Street, Christmas, Marilyn Monroe, National or Ethnic Minorities, Lena Horne
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Eartha Kitt, 81, sultry singer of 'Santa Baby'
The Associated PressEartha 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 Ms. Kitt, who was recently...Tags: Music, Jimmy Carter, Cancer, Death and Dying, St. Louis Blues
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Eartha Kitt: Purr-fect as Catwoman
The TV ZoneEartha Kitt, who died Thursday at 81, had a rich showbiz career as a dancer, actress and singer. But we'll always recall the sultry star as the third Catwoman on "Batman," following in the claw-steps of Julie Newmar and Lee......Tags: Eartha Kitt, Cesar Romero, Batman, Yvonne Craig
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'Blithe Spirit' at Hermosa Beach Playhouse
The enduring popularity of "Blithe Spirit" owes as much to its archly whimsical premise as to the adept way that author Noël Coward dispatches his bon mots. Both are on display in the well-appointed Hermosa Beach Playhouse revival of this indestructible...Tags: David Lean, Tim Burton, Hermosa, Hermosa Beach, Margaret Rutherford
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Comden & Green (and now add Beane)
Special to The TimesWHEN I was a young writer and wore a pencil behind my ear without a hint of irony, I swore a great many things. One was that I would never adapt anything. My ideas would spring anew from my dramatic imagination and the world would rejoice -- though...Tags: Music, M. Night Shyamalan, Music Industry, Adolph Green, Minority Groups
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Hollywood's nightmare neighbors
Times Staff WritersAs the recent lawsuit between horror director Wes Craven and his Hollywood Hills neighbor and sometime comedian Pauly Shore reveals: living next to a celebrity can be almost as disappointing as meeting them in person. And in many cases, much more...Tags: Wes Craven, Pauly Shore
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Louis L'Amour's wife is keeping his legacy alive
The Denver PostOn Thanksgiving, the family of one of America's most prolific novelists and chroniclers of the Western frontier -- the late Louis L'Amour -- sat down to dinner at their Spanish-colonial spread in Los Angeles. That city is where the writer who became...Tags: History, Books and Magazines, Television, International Business Machines Corporation, Batman
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Wesley Snipes to Cough Up $1.7 Mil to UTA
Zap2It.comIt wasn't talent alone that got Wesley Snipes four of his film roles. The "Blade" star has been ordered to pay $1.7 million in back commissions to the United Talent Agency for helping him get hired for four films, report news sources. According to the...Tags: Wesley Snipes, Movies, Fencing
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