Obits: Eartha, Pinter
Eartha Kitt, who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens in a show-business career that lasted more than six decades, died on Thursday. She was 81 and lived in Connecticut.
In Manila she is best remembered for her version of the song Waray-Waray and for appearing as Catwoman on the Batman TV series starring Adam West.
Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation, died on Wednesday. He was 78 and lived in London.
Source of the adjective, “Pinteresque”.
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January 1st, 2009 at 17:38
My first memory of Eartha was of terror. She was like the Negro (excuse the political incorrectness but it’s not entirely applicable to a kid growing up in Negros) version of Bella Flores. She was that good! I celebrated her life and time by listening to her songs on the 26th…
January 2nd, 2009 at 14:02
“The women of Waray-Waray have muscles of steel…but kisses like honey…”
Woah – was Ms Kitt referring to real women or ladyboys here???
hehehe
January 2nd, 2009 at 18:53
Oh yeah, food for thought. Never looked at it that way… I thought I understood that song pretty well being one dialect away from Warayness but my dad was born in Leyte.
January 2nd, 2009 at 19:25
Or then again, I do have gender orientation issues….