R.I.P., Eartha Kitt

Today is a sad Christmas - Eartha Kitt, one of my favourite performers, passed away from colon cancer. Ms. Kitt was 80. I also found out that Harold Pinter died too. What is it about Christmas and celebrities dying?? Anyway, here are two videos with the fabulous Kitt.

From Batman:


And photo montage to the song "Too Close for Comfort":

R.I.P., Sunny von Bulow

Today, Sunny von Bulow died at the age of 76. Ms. von Bulow's life became the subject of court room drama, as well as a Hollywood film (starring John Malkevich as her husband), when her husband Claus von Bulow was tried twice for attempted murder after Sunny fell into a hypoglycemic coma. Many people believed that Claus injected her with insulin in order to kill her and get her money.

On reading her obituary, I found myself feeling quite sad; it's easy to be caught up in the true crime aspect of the story, but really it was horrible. Who would ever think that they would end the way Sunny did? As with many sensational cases, the truth gets lost in the headlines - I don't know if Claus did it or not, and I don't suppose anyone ever will for sure.

Michael Crichton Dies of Cancer

Michael Crichton, the author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, among many others, died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. I've actually never read any of Crichton's books, although there was a spell in the late nineties when every book he wrote was turned into a movie. Truthfully, most of them were very bad - Sphere anyone? Aside from those books (which both successfully made it to the big screen) I think he'll be remembered most for being one of the creators of ER, the show that launched George Clooney into the stratosphere. Interesting that ER is also packing it in after a million seasons.
In any event, R.I.P. Mr. Crichton.

Sad Sad News

I was just thinking about Paul Newman yesterday; while watching The Torn Curtain, with Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, I wondered about his battle with cancer and how he was doing. He was the most handsome physicist I've ever seen! Anyway, I was so sad to hear this morning that he's passed away. He was a great actor, and a real humanitarian - he didn't do his good deeds just for show. Among his many roles, my personal favourite performance was in Cool Hand Luke, although Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a close second. He will be sorely missed!

Umm...Sap??

As you may already know, Norman Mailer passed away earlier this month - November 10th to be exact. Well, I must confess to not being a huge Mailer fan. I frankly consider him to be a rather sexist couchon. But, no one take away his many accomplishments, especially those of the posthumous variety. Imagine my "pleasure" when I read that Mr. Mailer won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award!

I won't keep you in suspense...

His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with all the passion of his own lips and face, ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety.

"The Castle in the Forest"

Now really, what does one say after that?

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