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Sindy: The IoS Diary (08/08/10)
When Eartha Kitt sang Sondheim's showstopping, older woman's anthem to survival, "I'm Still Here", in the last London production of Follies, 20 years ago, she pocketed an Olivier award and went on to mount her own sell-out show.
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Suede, Royal Albert Hall, London
British rock bands in the early Nineties worth giving an Eartha Kitt about. Suede's five men in black have pulled it out of the fire with fearless hands. And make no mistake, there was fire. The song that precedes their… -
Dominic Lawson: It's no wonder some Christians forget that Jesus was Jewish
Indeed, "Santa Baby", as immortalised by Eartha Kitt, is sublime only in its erotic suggestiveness. Yet, in the week of good will to all men, Keillor suddenly demonstrated a flash of that old-time religious fervour – even fury. -
A director calls: Inside the world of Stephen Daldry
The son of a bank manager and a singer ("Somerset's answer to Eartha Kitt"), he'd started directing at Huish's Grammar Now Daldry is in London overseeing the return to the West End of An Inspector Calls, the production which… -
The Diary: Stephen Fry; Chetan Bhagat; Venice Biennale; Honor Blackman;…
The former Bond girl Honor Blackman is apparently taking over from where the late, great Eartha Kitt left off. Grace", which was written for Kitt (she died last year), has now been taken up by Blackman, who at 83, is… -
Tony Osborne: Composer and arranger who worked with Shirley Bassey, Judy…
I also worked with Eartha Kitt and I was surprised that they were so friendly with each other. Osborne was to make the albums, The Romantic Eartha and Love For Sale (both 1984) with Kitt.Osborne found time for family life as… -
David Lister: Bring back the art blockbusters
The death of Eartha Kitt over the holiday period stirred a memory for me – not of her singing or acting, but of the most nightmarish interview I have ever conducted. Besides, blockbusters attract a new audience into a… -
Eartha Kitt: Singer and actress with a difficult reputation who was…
Cast in a supporting role was the 80-year old veteran Connie Smith, and Welch recalled to her biographer, Stephen Bourne: "Eartha Kitt was a strange creature. She had a great success in London when she succeeded Dolores Gray… -
Eartha Kitt dies of cancer, aged 81
Andrew Freedman, Mrs Kitt's longstanding agent, announced last night that she had lost a long battle against colon cancer on Christmas morning at Columbia Her daughter and manager, Kitt Shapiro, was at her side. -
Carry On actor dies
Royal in 1989 including Phil Collins, Eartha Kitt, Russ Conway, Sir Harry He made his name as the nervous and fidgety Carry On character Alf Ippititimus with his famous "Phwaay! catchphrase. In later life, he was a regular on…
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Hit & Run: Beauty queen
Dita Von Teese and Eartha Kitt have all made the cut, while even Barbie collaborated with the brand last year. Compared with the peachy-skinned prettiness of Anne Hathaway at Lancôme or Charlize Theron at Dior, Everage might… -
TV on the Radio, Shepherds Bush, Empire, LondonV V Brown, Komedia, Brighton
V V Brown has the feline eyes, high cheekbones and lacquered quiff of a vintage jazz siren (Sarah Vaughan, say, or Eartha Kitt), a puffball skirt straight out of the 1982 Christmas Top of the Pops, and the boundless … -
Gerry wiggins: West Coast jazz pianist
He took this role with Nat King Cole, Lou Rawls, Eartha Kitt, Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, Kay Starr, Esther Williams and Helen Humes, among others. Not keen, as a child, on his piano studies, he suddenly saw the light when… -
Gabriella Cilmi: Meet the teen queen who is the sound of summer
It has now been Top 10 for six full weeks, its insidious rhythm and a purring vocal not a million miles away from a young Eartha Kitt making it the hit of the summer. "In the space of a couple of hours we had practically… -
My Week In Media: TV presenter Melanie Sykes
I was coming back from the Cotswolds last week and he was interviewing Eartha Kitt. Last week I watched. Jamie At Home. I've been glued to the programme. I find him inspiring, and not just in the kitchen – the new thing…