Obama and Bloomberg get a thumbs-up, and Hillary gets a raised eyebrow, from the inimitable Eartha Kitt. The still very spry singer and dancer, who turned 80 in January, plays a fortune-teller in a ...

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In a word, she was...purrrfect. Preternaturally alluring and charismatic, Eartha Kitt achieved worldwide fame at a time when most mixed-race performers couldn’t even get hired. Whether she was acting ...

"There were two different people that coexisted within my mother," Kitt Shapiro tells PEOPLE. "One was Eartha Kitt. The other was Eartha Mae. They were two distinctive parts that made one person." ...

I spent “An Evening with Eartha Kitt Live!” and from the moment I stepped into the Velvet Martini Lounge I knew it would be a night to remember. First off, Broadway’s Thomasina Gross (Mamma Mia!, ...

I’m a culture reporter for The New York Times, where I investigate the art world’s relationship to money, politics and technology. Here are five things I’m obsessed with. By Zachary Small In the new ...

"My mother survived so much," Eartha Kitt's daughter Kitt Shapiro tells PEOPLE ahead of the release of her memoir Eartha & Kitt Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over ...