Word: eartha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayor Ed Koch stood on his dignity and declined to read the funnies over the air as Fiorello La Guardia had done during a New York City newspaper strike 33 years earlier. No matter. Soupy Sales and Eartha Kitt read Doonesbury and other comic strips on expanded news shows. New York Post Gossip Writer Diane Judge also went on the air to read her own column. Nonunion reporters at the Daily News passed the time at their 42nd Street offices by writing obituaries for future use. At the Times building across town, police kept an eye on the small group...
...probably print without the pressmen, but not as long as the key deliverers continue to support the walkout. So until the two sides settle, New Yorkers will have to depend on out-of-town papers and radio or television stations to sate their appetite for news. And comics. Soupy? Eartha...
...George Bell) and his concupiscent Wife of Wives (Eartha Kitt). Give Kitt credit for delivering sexily insinuative lines with the mocking irony of Mae West...
Lady Bird Johnson was close to tears, said bystanders, the day Eartha Kitt spoke out emotionally at a White House luncheon. American boys, she protested, were being "snatched off to be shot in Viet Nam." For a decade the entertainer was unofficially banned from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But last week she was back, along with several hundred other guests, including her daughter, Kitt McDonald, 16. The occasion: a reception in honor of the tenth anniversary of the restoration of Ford's Theater. "First I thought I shouldn't go," said Kitt, 50, who attended between performances...
...made The Wiz is now turning Kismet into Timbuktu!-and bringing it to Broadway. Borrowing eleven songs and the plot from the 1953 hit musical, Director-Choreographer Geoffrey Holder has cast the colorful show with blacks and set it in the fabulously wealthy capital of 14th century Mali. Eartha Kitt plays the wife of the wicked Wazir who wrongs Melba Moore, a sweet young country girl. Moore, whose face is dotted with Holder's notion of tribal markings, says that she loves the chance to "kick up my heels a bit" and "to get the prince and live happily...