VOA慢速英语 美国演员歌手Eartha Kitt(1927-2008)

　　CATWOMAN: “What now?”

　　BATMAN: “You’re on your way to prison, Catwoman. Will you never learn that you cannot outwit the law?”

　　CATWOMAN: “Maybe one day I will, Batman. Purr-haps.”

　　VOICE TWO:

　　In nineteen sixty-eight Eartha Kitt was invited to the White House. President Lyndon Johnson was in office and the Vietnam War was an issue of national dispute.

　　The president’s wife, Lady Bird Johnson, invited several women to a luncheon to discuss the problem of crimes committed by young people. Eartha Kitt said the First Lady asked her why she thought there was so much youth crime in America.

　　Eartha Kitt said: “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the streets. They will take pot and they will get high. They don’t want to go to school because they will be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.”

　　VOICE ONE:

　　Those comments destroyed Kitt’s career in America for a long time. Later, it was discovered that President Johnson had immediately ordered government agents to investigate the performer. Kitt said she was “blacklisted.” No one in the American entertainment industry would employ her. For about ten years, she could only find work in other countries.

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