The voice behind one of the best holiday classics ever went silent on Christmas day.
Eartha Kitt--whose sultry, sophisticated "Santa Baby" always put the swellegant and swing in an otherwise mad cap season--died yesterday at 81. I'll leave the details to the obit in today's The New York Times.
It's hard to say when I first laid eyes on Mme. Kitt and fell wildly in love with her. Maybe it was some Friday night variety show on the telly. But most possibly it was her turn as Catwoman in the 1960s campfest Batman series. I always tuned into the reruns every week growing up. I was as mesmerized by her voice as her style and looks. And as the years passed, her maturing beauty, glamour, outspokeness and elegance only continued to inspire me.
Eartha Kitt was truly an original, truly an icon.
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