The actors James Dean and Earth Kitt were fabulous friends. He’d seen her on stage in a performance and had been in awe of her movements. “Can you please teach me to move like you?” he asked her. “Sure, she said,” and took him to a ballet studio.
They remained close ever since — Dean didn’t trust a lot of people in ‘the business’ but with Kitt, he felt safe enough to open up. They’d hang out, and exchange stories. He would confide his worries in her, and unload his heavy heart. Sometimes he’d even call her up in the middle of the night, if something troubled him particularly much.
She never hung up early or told him to go to sleep — she’s always hear him out, realizing it was something he needed. He didn’t like Hollywood,” Kitt later said, “because he found fame, the way he was being treated as a business, as a piece of flesh, a thing. It was not becoming beautiful to him anymore.”
Eartha Kitt saw James Dean one last time, shortly before his tragic early death in a car crash. She would later say “he was there… but he wasn’t there. I knew he was gone before they told me he has passed — he just wasn’t there.” She never quite got over losing him.
“Africa shoulders a disproportionate amount of the world’s nature when compared to developed countries.
Yet of the $49 billion spent on biodiversity protection worldwide, just 6% goes to Africa — where budget deficits are the highest.”
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I refuse to let this legendary moment go unnoticed because not only is she the first college to gymnast to do this since 2004, but she’s only the third person to make this record and the FIRST black woman to do it! ICON 🙌🏾
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In 1979, President Carter had solar panels installed at the White House. These were later laughed at, derided and removed by officials of Reagan Administration.
.@Target raised its minimum wage for all employees to $24/hr & all who work as little as 24hrs/wk gets health insurance. Target will prove: 1. The labor problem isn't people are lazy, it's that they aren't paid enough. 2. More ppl will shop at a store that treats employees right.
Gay bars, lesbian bars, queer bars -- these don't simply exist for social entertainment, although that purpose is quite cherished. Their primary and most important component is serving as an oasis of personal dignity and safety.
In a weird way, I think that the destruction of this platform by an arrogant billionaire with no understanding of how humans interact with one another sort of brought us all closer together again.