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"Fifty years after she came to RCA, Kitt is still basically a cafe artist, not an arena superstar like Madonna. (In 1987, Madonna raided the turf of a senior Material Girl by recording Santa baby. Kitt was not impressed. Asked to comment, that prowling, hissing force of nature just snickered. 'Now, really, Madonna', she said. 'Keep trying. She's another one of those Barbie dolls'). But she brushes off fate with that cackling laugh. 'I always say, they didn't pay Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel. What do you want, Eartha?' ".
James Gavin, "Heavenly Eartha" (2002)
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"When she dropped her head and walked straight at you, it was like getting hit with a black-jack".
Ed Sullivan, présentateur d'une émission culte dans les années 60-70 notamment,
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" 'When she is making a record', says RCA musical director Henri Rene, 'she never makes a grand entrance. She just sneaks into the sound studio in slacks and sits in a corner, or else gets up and prowls around, talking to the musicians, trying to play the horns, full of chater and curiosity until we're ready to go. The she bears down. Eartha is very expressive physically when she sings. This makes a lot of green notes in the background. The musicians can't watch her and the music at the same time'. "
James Gavin, box-set "Eartha-Quake" (1993)
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"Never one to take herself too seriousely, she has the ability to still play the sex kitten in advanced middle age without appearing ridiculous or making her adoring public feel uncomfortable."
Tony Watts, "Sentimental Eartha" (1970)
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"Even today, she still gives a sexy performance whether on screen or on stage and it takes a special performer to be able to do that in her seventies. On one recent TV appearance, she was wearing a figure hugging creation which was little more than a mesh, and theree wasn't much, if anything, underneath. She has always been able to get away with it, and always will."
Martin Hutchinson, "the Eartha Kitt collection" (2000)
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