This cat looks rather like a cat we met some years ago, named--drumroll--Carlotta!
You probably never met him, but Manny Appel worked as a CR for the 950 office for several years before retiring to sell real estate.
He and his wife live out on the Avenues in San Francisco. They adopted a stray cat, which they named Carlotta.
The name came from a movie by Hitchcock called Vertigo. In it, there's a fictional sub-plot involving a Spanish-American of that name who becomes a character in the story. A short trip to a bookstore in SF reveals that Carlotta was taken up as a mistress by a wealthy businessman, maintained as a kept woman "in a big house in the Western Addition" then dropped. So Carlotta would wander the streets, abandoned, confused and homeless. "The sad Carlotta . . . " So the Appels named their cat after the movie.
This cat looks rather like a cat we met some years ago, named--drumroll--Carlotta!
ReplyDeleteYou probably never met him, but Manny Appel worked as a CR for the 950 office for
several years before retiring to sell real estate.
He and his wife live out on the Avenues in San Francisco. They adopted a stray cat,
which they named Carlotta.
The name came from a movie by Hitchcock called Vertigo. In it, there's a fictional sub-plot involving
a Spanish-American of that name who becomes a character in the story. A short trip to a
bookstore in SF reveals that Carlotta was taken up as a mistress by a wealthy businessman,
maintained as a kept woman "in a big house in the Western Addition" then dropped. So Carlotta
would wander the streets, abandoned, confused and homeless. "The sad Carlotta . . . "
So the Appels named their cat after the movie.
To me, the biggest mystery in Vertigo is how James Stewart keeps being able to find parking spots in San Francisco without the slightest problem.
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