An you thought walking around with a Kitten Hat was a NEW thing. No:
Thanks Chief Sister Officer Pants!
Vintage cat-on-head footage
June 11, 2010 By
An you thought walking around with a Kitten Hat was a NEW thing. No:
Thanks Chief Sister Officer Pants!
I love how she’s all, “Oh, hello!” Like she just noticed there was a cat on her head.
Um, is the kitten in the fountain???
BAD BAD RUDE KILLY HITCHIN A RIDE!!!
Try a new chatpeau for summer. Perhaps a nice furdora.
Two prats in a fountain, one is falling out her dress
Two prats in a fountain, who’ll drown is anybodys guess
Neo-Realist Gattino FTW!!!
Meg: That was awesome! That’s totally how it works in my house: I walk through the living room and into my bathroom with my full-grown cat SamKitty sitting on my head. (he’s kind of heavy so my forehead skin gets sort of scrunched down around the bridge of my nose. His tail swishes around my nostrils and I sneeze attractively). Then, I step slinkily into the shower wearing a black cocktail dress and sort of swirl around under the water. However, no handsome man gets in there with me. I just get out all wet and hang my cocktail dress to dry on the clothes line out back. Then I read from whatever novel I’m into and go to bed. Oh well.
Kitten tries to get a head in life.
@Rooanne. Take another look. The kitten is quite safe and either drinking milk or eating tuna given to it by Marcello before Marcello got into the fountain.
I no likey this one.
aj. italian nouvelle vague avec chat
anita eckberg, her rack, marcello mastrionani, his weakness.
where is anouk aimee and the converse: ‘as simple as a gothic cathedral’, bach, fugue in D majoe,
altogether a nooby movie, made far better by the kittens…actually, i think she did have a kitten on her haidl
Is Marcello getting the milk for the kitten or were they meant to be having a coffee? Its all well to lose yourselves in the moment but a bit irresponsible to frolick in the fountain when the kitten could run away or be stolen…This is one of life’s dilemmas where there IS a right answer: Marcello should have kept his pants dry and sat with the kitten until the chick came to her senses and got out of the Trevi fountain.
Love, obsession, and insanity all > common sense in a big way, sometimes. *shrug!*
Tiny pointy tail in the face + perma-confused kittenface = AWW.
Dr Anne: In the first part, she’s looking for him, and says, “Where did he go with that milk?” So he went to get milk for kitty, I’m assuming.
I love this movie! Thanks so much.
I know there are CO readers who are all, “Those fancy old black-and-white movies in foreign languages are not for me; they are for smarty-pants college professors.” But you are wrong. Tell your loser jock boyfriend that the two of you are going to sit down and watch La Dolce Vita — with subtitles! — and that’s that. Then be prepared to laugh and cry and be horrified and amused and get twisted emotionally six ways from Sunday, and then fall in love with Marcello Mastroiani just like your Grandma did back in the 60s, and then sigh wistfully because it is not Meant To Be.
(And you will love it so much you will want to watch Fellini’s 8 1/2, and after that, you will be lost forever.)
Since I have a small cat that throws herself 1/2 way up my back then climbs up to my shoulder my first thought watching that scene was OUCH !!! Thinking of all those needle sharp kitten claws digging in for a secure grip on a moving perch. (the top of her head & forehead) And not a single twitch from her? WOW ! what an actress !!!!!
That seen in the bar with the dancers dressed up like lions and tigers and their amazing claw dance is one of my favorite movie moments of all times. And yes, everyone needs to watch La Dolce Vita. There are lots of things I like, but the three things I like most are: love, love, and love. Amore, amore, amore.
also, scene not seen. Jeez.
I am sure PETA was not around at the time of they made this movie. LoL!
a cat. a rack. a camera…action!
That was a little.. weird. I was horrified when they went to her in the fountain because I thought she took the kitten in with her (he wold probably not like that.) Glad to see she left him out waiting for Milk with Marcello. I may have to get this movie someday to see how in the world this all came about!
actually, i fell in love with anouk aimee….sign. marcello looks goofy, no angst at all…
What happened to the poor kitten?!
anita ekberg = hottttt. must see this movie.
Until I saw the car I didn’t realize they were outdoors! I thought they were in some gigantic castle somewhere.
Yes, he brings milk for the kitty who is safely on dry land during the fountain frolicking.
I must see this film.
If anyone is wondering where she placed the kitten, it’s where Michello goes to sit down preside the wall, not before poring some milk in to a saucer for the little kitty.
No no no people when she went in the fountain she left the cat on the sidewalk and the guy gave it milk. 0:50 – 1:00 people!
So what are the fashion rules for wearing cats on your head? No white cats after Labor Day? Longhaired cats only after 7pm? Tell me, I must know!
I bet the cat got lost in her rack.
oh thank you!
how delightful to see that old movie again!!!
and this clip is also referred to in “Under the Tuscan Sun”!!
1960 movie obviously inspired by Dr. Seuss’s 1957 book The Cat Is The Hat.
PS, I don’t think the Trevi is EVER this empty, even in the middle of the night, I think there are tons of tourists, people trying to sell you stuff, and others trying to steal your wallet.
It’s actually my least favorite part of Rome– you really have to yell at people to leave you alone, and they get PO’d when you do. I remember I told a guy about twenty times I didn’t want to buy any of his crap, and finally shouted “VA’VIA!!!” at him, and he looked like I was the one bugging him. 
All I could think of was that the water was prob not so wonderful to be bathing in.
PS: Roma è piena di gattini! Rome is full of kitties.
What a weird clip. Now I have to watch the movie.
Now for something completely different: Has anyone else noticed there’s two weeks missing from the CO desk calendar..? Or is it just mine? I took a peek and found it jumps straight from June 13th to June 28th.
lol my neighbor named her cats Paulo, Richard and Betty……the actress in the video makes me think of her hehehehe!!
Theresa, I am shaking my fist at you in a paroxysm of jealousy that anyone can be in a position to have a “least favorite” part of Rome. I was only there for four days, twenty-five years ago, and I fell instantly in love with the place. I would desperately like to go back some day, and can only dream of ever getting enough of it to have a least favorite part….
Yes, Rome is full of kitties. The current pope (who is a cat lover) was always feeding stray cats around Rome when he was a cardinal. So many would follow him into the Vatican that a Swiss Guard humorously suggested a cat army was invading.
True story.
Noodles: my calendar goes from June 13 to June 14 and goes straight through. I guess you got a defective one.
Too bad because June 21 is a killer.
@Skippymom, I didn’t mean to sound all “seasoned traveller,” it’s not like I hang out there all the time!
But I do believe about Italy, when in doubt, JUST GO. I’ve never known anyone to regret it.
@Theresa, as far as the question of travel, it seems to require this thing called “money”. Sigh.
Of course, if I would just stop collecting cats, I’d have a lot more in the old bank account.
Yes, I see – Marcello was kind enough to bring kitten some milk, or something. Now I am curious to see this movie.
Calling all Peeps who know alot about languages: Is it true that every word in the Italiano language ends with a vowel?
I understand that thanks to this movie, you can’t even put your fingers in the fountain now.
@QoD, didn’t you know that all you have to do to instantly speak Italian, is to put vowels on the ends of all your words?
@Skippymom, again, not to make you feel bad, but I think I traveled more when I had less than I do now. Not to minimize the importance of the green stuff, but I was more adventurous, less rooted, and more able to tolerate discomfort.
Now have to travel like this:
I would like to point out that tiny kittens have a bad habit of peeing without warning or provocation.
Theresa! Thanks for the gorgeous Liz entering Rome! LOL
Theresa – Which budget travel company do you use?
Hmm,I wonder if Cleopatra had a bad habit of peeing without warning or provocation. Just wondering. Perky breasts on those dancing ladies!
Mrs. Mousharif is far more modest than ol’ Cleo, glad to say.
“Listen…”
@Theresa…I bet you wink at the men who pet their kitty statues too! Having lived through this time, I find it amusing that the black dancers wear the most fashion forward bikinis of the time…and I don’t remember ever seeing the pasties dance on TV! Totally related to traveling in comfort, though. Does your bier tilt nicely like that for going down stairs?
I wish I was that sexy-weird
Angela: I myself am TOTALLY that sexy-weird!
@QoD and Angela, Me too, totally!
As long as I can link to YouTube, I can be whatever I want.
@AnnieO, you know what they say, black ladies and gay men can wear anything.
Theresa: As a black lady, I REALLY CAN wear anything! You are so funny, Theresa!
Me loves you! Currently, I’m sporting black, sexy shorts with a turqouise blue stripe down the sides of the legs, coupled with a navy blue sweatshirt. *sssssssss. HOT* My feet are bare and my long hair is pulled back with a black, twisty, pony tail holder thing. Youch! Crap. I’m so not feeling sexy. I think I’ll go take a shower and read for a bit. Plus, I’ll bet this attempt at humor will probably get moderated because there are too many sexy words in it. But Theresa, I really do adore your posts! You are very much fun! 
[oh the mysterious ways of the mod-bot: your post just walked right in and sat right down. mod-bot is all, "i love you just the way you are!"
--M.i.T.]
P.S. That really is, sadly, my outfit for hanging around the house today. I’m a fashion loser. My clothes don’t even match.
(but at least they’re comfy).
Queen of Dork–Somehow I believe that you ARE TOO (uh huh) a fashion queen–
plus you write like someone who’s lots of fun to be around. So when the occasion
calls for it, Queen of Dork Rocks!
puddlepeppers: Thanks so much! Every little nice word such as yours helps so much! As I’m sure many others here can agree to, it’s not easy being a single, working parent of a minor child. So thank you for saying something so sweet!!
@QoD, right back atcha. My ensemble du jour consists of a tank top, flip flops, and a pair of shorts with a gecko print. I am not a black lady, but a WLWDNC: “A White Lady Who Does Not Care.”
At least today.
And that is why summers are better than winter. Even if you hate hot weather, it is still much better to be uncomfortable in a tank top, gecko shorts and flip flops than to be uncomfortable in fourteen sweaters.
Theresa: Cool! I love the sound of your ensemble! And I’m so happy because puddlepeppers really boosted my silly self and made my day. What a very sweet, kind thing to say, right?
Myself, I prefer winters because that way, I can layer myself in clothes. In the summer, I can only take off so many things. (and still be in public legally)
Dang, Theresa, I thought *I* took a lot of stuff when I travel. I hadn’t even bothered to pack the dancers, the band, the sphinx, the bearers….
The bearers would come in handy for the rest of the stuff, though.
@Rhea, that was just for a weekend.
Peeps: I just got some barbeque chicken from this place near where I live. Every time I bring this stuff into my home, my cat loses his mind. Tonight was no different. I was standing at the table trying to put it on plates. Sammie actually stood up on his hind legs and put his front paws on my thighs while looking up at me with this adorable face and yelling at me to “give me chicken right now!” He looked so cute even though he’s never stood against my leg while yelling at me like that. He’s always demanding but he even outdid himself this evening. Of course, he got some chicken. Right now, he is passed out in an after-pig-out-coma on the floor in the living room. What a butthead.
@QoD, my Stinky used to be that way with Chipotle chicken burritos. He even used to rip pieces off the tortilla and eat them. He was the Burrito Bandito.
Scarlett Johanson and Bill Murray were watching this exact scene in the movie Lost in Translation! Random observation..
Theresa: Then you understand. And it’s not just anything but just this particular chicken from this particular place. He loses what little marbles he has left. He’s a nut but I so love him! That’s why he’s so spoiled. He can be such a booger but then look at me with those syrupy eyes like the cat in Shrek. (Man, am I whipped)
@Queen of Dork
I would just love to see a picture of your kitty after he has “passed out in an after-pic-out-coma” 
I know I’ve seen this clip before! Does anyone else remember “Lost in Translation where Bill Murray and Scarlette J. are watching a movie in his hotel room? It’s THAT movie!!! Has anyone figured out what movie it is? The comments are great, but…tl;dr
Queen of Dork, I think you misunderstood your cat. He was wanting to make sure that you didn’t eat all of HIS chicken. I too have chicken-loving cats, and they are always trying to make sure that I don’t take more than my share of their chicken.
Now, I must see that movie! (Cleopatra, not Lost in Translation)
And, also La Dolce Vita… I was so busy watching ole Cleo, I forgot the original clip!!
Crazy for sure.
Is this a Fellini film?
I hate this movie, so damn much.
Never watch t.