2008/12/28

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Forever Fierce

clipped by: debbyski
Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

?Je cherche un billionaire,? Eartha Kitt purred last year from the stage of the Café Carlyle, the chic, intimate club in the Carlyle Hotel that had been her regular stomping ground for more than a decade.


If this ageless catwoman, who died at 81 on Christmas Day, was an amusing caricature, the role was fueled by a steady current of anger.

Her childhood rejection by both black and white society because of her mixed and uncertain parentage might have left her with a profound sense of having to go it alone



This cat who walked by herself had few qualms about criticizing the Vietnam War to Lady Bird Johnson when she visited the White House in 1968. Ms. Kitt paid dearly for her remarks when she found bookings canceled, and her career nearly evaporated for a number of years.


You didn?t have to prove yourself in the bedroom with her, only in the boardroom and the bank.


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