Evita

Evita: Benny's wife's Akita's (dog) name in the musical/movie RENT, who Angel kills by drumming outside the penthouse and the dog falls 23 stories to the sidewalk.

Eva "Evita" Peron was the first lady of Argentina during the 1940s. She was loved by the working classes, depised by the upper classes and she died tragically young at 33 from a tumour in either her womb or her stomach, I can't remember which from the top of my head. She is the subject of an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical.