F Yeah Eartha Kitt!

EARTHA KITT | BAD TO THE BONE :-)

Earth Kitt, 1960s

Eartha Kitt and James Dean in NYC, photographed by Dennis Stock in 1955

… still remembering all the things Jamie Dean had told me on the phone. ‘’I dont know what the feeling of love is really like. I dont know if I have ever been in love, but if I have, it must have been with you because I never felt that feeling before you and I have never felt that feeling after you.’’ 

LBJ was tall. Really, really fucking tall. And he used it for physical intimidation, all the time. He was infamous, when trying to browbeat people to his way, for getting in people’s face, looming over them and forcing them backwards. It was called “The Treatment,” and very successful. It was caught on film a few times. Look at some examples:

Now look at that picture up there. You can see LBJ trying to start that there. Showing his height, starting to lean in, but still with his elbow on the cabinet. The “Treatment” that had cowed a tremendous amount of very powerful men.

And Eartha Kitt is just. Not. Having it.

She was always against only playing the “Tragic Mullato” in movies like they made Dorothy, but rather a feirce femme fatale and she was a take-no-shit, opinionated feminist in all her interviews.

Eartha Kitt