Sadness - Eartha Kitt RIP- Page 2

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/25/08 at 10:36pm

I was invited to a special invitation only dress rehearsal of "All About US" in NY City before it went to Westport and Eartha picks someone from the audience to sing too. She sang to me and I have never been more moved at a performance in my entire life.

After, she asked me who I was. I told her no one. She said you are someone and was very nice to me. I talked to Eartha for over half an hour. She was very gracious to me and I will never forget those minutes. She was a very generous lady. She will be missed.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/25/08 at 10:49pm

What are the chances? Wow!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/25/08 at 10:51pm

Did she ask about your ankle?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/25/08 at 11:43pm

Each time we saw her, this one always sent shivers down my spine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGRcLhzedXo

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/25/08 at 11:45pm

I saw her live only once in the Cinderella tour a few years ago, and I thought she was fantasic. That was my favorite production of the show I've seen. She will be missed.

[WestEndAndy]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 9:20am

I met her in the YMCA gym when she was playing Carlotta in Follies in London. She was doing leg raises and I said something trite about what amazing energy she had. My other half saw her at Heaven in the 80s. She was on to sing two songs but she never got further than the opening bars. The audience were so excited and making so much noise that she had to stop singing. For the rest of her performance she posed and sashayed round the stage, to the absolute delight of her fans.

She was a total star.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 9:26am

In Washington, DC, for the March on Washington, at which Martin Luther King delivered the historic "I have a dream" speech.

Judy Garland and Eartha Kitt, with Charlton Heston and Marlon Brando.

August 28, 1963.

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[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 10:06am

Imagine the conversation between the four of them....

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 10:15am

Back when Charlton was still a liberal...

[HellsBells2]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 10:21am

Wow PJ, what a powerful photo that is!

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 11:07am

There was nothing wrong with my ankle then. EARTHA was a very nice lady. I was moved beyond words when she sang to me. Joe Stein was a few seats away and she sang to me.

She was purrrrrrrfect.
I thank Jackie for giving me that experience.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 11:22am

I was just informed by John Fricke that the photograph was taken days prior to the march, in Los Angeles, at a planning meeting for the March itself.

[BWF]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 11:34am

An incarnation, that is worthy of celebration and applause. She overcame adversity time, and time again, easily, such was the power and determination of her spirit.

My condolences to her close family, who are left with a hole that cannot be filled.

What a Star!

Updated On: 12/26/08 at 11:34 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 11:35am

Eartha was well known for having the uncanny knack for locating a kindred spirit and spending time with that person, Corine. I am sure Eartha was able to sense your struggles, similar to those she endured growing up dirt poor. She most likely sensed your money issues and your self-esteem issues and she probably felt a bond with your can-do spirit. Like Eartha, you know you have to pick your own self up by your bootstraps and create your own reality. She probably intuited that you're a hard worker, not a complainer, and somebody who really revels in bringing delight and joy to the lives of others.

When you look at it that way, there was no one else in the room, hell, on the planet, she could possibly have sung to.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 11:42am

"I was moved beyond words when she sang to me. Joe Stein was a few seats away and she sang to me."


For me!

FOR ME!

FOOOOOOORRRRR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


You still manage to make a thread about someone else, all about you, Corine.

[Usnavi]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 11:50am

kitt led an incredible life and left us a legacy that will live on.

she was truly one of a kind, a force of nature. the ultimate sex kitten.

i love her interpretation of 'c'est si bon'.

grew up on her 'catwoman' and couldn't wait for her episodes to air when 'batman' was in re-runs.

she will not be forgotten.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 12:05pm

She only did three episodes of Batman.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 2:08pm

But she was so brilliant!


Only three episodes and she's remembered only for that to a lot of people.

Hell, I saw her in Wizard Of Oz with my husband, he didn't remember her at all.

"I remember Mickey Rooney..."

(eye roll)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 2:11pm

Eartha might say, "And how long did he rrrrrrrrrremain your husband after that?"

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 2:13pm

Hell, I married him.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 3:01pm

[Usnavi]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 3:09pm

^^ "okay now jaaamessssss just follow me it's rrrrreally quite simple you see..."

[wexy]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 4:04pm

I got kissed by Ronnie Spector when she was bombed atthe Brooklyn Zoo.Pulled me right up on stage and kissed me.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 4:10pm

That's because Ronnie loves cuddly animals. But this thread is about Corine and how she made Eartha Kitt's life a little brighter one day.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/26/08 at 4:35pm

No, it's not. It's about me and how many times I saw her live and why I miss her more than you do and how I am special and you are not because not only do I appreciate her talent more than you do, she also shared my political beliefs.

And so did Judy Garland.

It's about ME and MY LOVE for ... whoever it is this thread is about.