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HW Shop: Eartha Kitt And Lena Horne Signed 1st Edition Book

Posted on March 3, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Divas Eartha Kitt and Lena Horne signed this 1st edition book Black Musical Theatre From Coontown to Dreamgirls by Allen Woll.

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HW Pick: Terry Baker Mulligan’s “Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem”

Posted on June 7, 2012 by | 1 Comment

Riverside Theatre presents: Terry Baker Mulligan

Reading from & Signing Copies of Her New Memoir

Using Harlem’s famous cultural institutions and memorable characters as her backdrop, Terry Baker Mulligan writes joyously about weathering adolescence, while history unfolds around her in the legendary neighborhood called Sugar Hill. Continue reading →

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The History of the Harlem World Club (video)

Posted on February 27, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Today, the old Harlem World Club building is a Conway’s on 116th and Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue), but it was also the place for the drugstore chain Woolworth. But more importantly, from 1978 to 1985, it was the home of legendary disco,  The Harlem World Club. Continue reading →

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An Eartha Kitt Harlem Story

Posted on December 26, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Appreciation

Eartha Kitt Had a Taste For the Best Things in Life

In her fantastical life, Eartha Kitt came to like a great many things. Men, sex, bawdy songs. I personally know about the lemon sorbet, the mango sorbet and the strawberry sorbet.

I found myself dining with Kitt — who died of cancer at the age of 81 yesterday — at the swanky Cafe Carlyle in Manhattan several years ago. I was working on a book about Sammy Davis Jr., once a romantic interest of Kitt’s. Kitt’s office suggested the Carlyle. Being on book leave, without a steady income and counting pennies, I gulped: The Carlyle wasn’t the place for a penny-pincher. But I needed the interview, so I dared not back out of the chance to talk with her. Kitt had known Davis when both were very young and both were hanging out at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco

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