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Eartha Kitt RIP
Posted by Riccardo Gargiulo on 25 December 2008 - 11:10pm.
just seen on the news that Eartha Kitt has died aged 81.
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In my view, rather more significantly, today marks the death of Harold Pinter.
More significantly?
Both were getting on. Both did their best work barely within living memory. And, speaking personally, I've always been more partial to a purr than a pause.
In my view
"Best work barely within living memory"? I think the high watermark of Pinter's material is the late 1970s and early 1980s, personally. And, come on, Archie: the Pinter/pause remark is only a notch or two away from Leonard Cohen/depressing. However, I have no wish for things to become sour. Happy Christmas to all, and here's to absent friends.
Relative agreement
'Twas just a jibe at the habit of lazy journos of reducing long, complex lives down to one word, plus a reminder that significance is a tricky beast to pin down. I see, for example, that although The New York Times website's obit of Pinter's death gets 22 comments, Eartha Kitt's gets 116.
Still, I agree that this is no time for bickering about the relative merits of caretakers and catwomen. Onwards and - hic! - upwards.
Always liked Pinter's tuppence-worth
Apart from.....
(pregnant pause)
...the plays.
R.I.P.
to both of 'em.
Let's not bicker
I see Eartha Kitt was described by the BBC News this morning as "best known for her role as Catwoman in TV's Batman", which is a bit like saying John Lennon was best known for his role in "How I Won The War".
Add a lazy sub editor at the BBC
to a quick Google, and that's the gist of the metadata in the first hits returned.
You have to admit, she was pretty stunning in the role though:
There goes
one of my father's favourite pieces of celebrity rhyming slang...
Why would you need rhyming slang for...
"In the deep midwinter"?
Ayethangyew.
The erstwhile Reviews Jude introduced me to this...
BRILLIANT!
RIP.
Eartha and the chair .
Can anyone else remember her amazing appearance with Prof Anthony Clare In the psychiatrists Chair a number of years ago ? R.I.P.