“The most exciting woman on earth,” Orson Welles once called Eartha Kitt. Unfortunately for us, she made antiwar statements during a visit to the Johnson White House and was essentially blackballed in America for years. Our loss was Europe’s gain.

Here she is, at the age of 81 and looking a good 30 years younger. Astonishing. See for yourself:

Posted by Jerome Doolittle at May 04, 2008 08:53 PM

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