Whatever about the myths of Ancient Greece, for some
of us the name Sybil is forever associated with 'Fawlty Towers':
far & away the most brilliant sitcom we Brits ever produced
- but probably too long ago for most bananafish.
Simply to recall the look of fear & fury on John Cleese's face
as he cries: 'Coming, Sybil....' to his bossy-boots wife as played
by Prunella Scales - is to find oneself laughing once again
with an awful self-recognition.
With her sculpted coiffure, her fine, girdled figure & her
complacent dominance of all she surveys, she is very much
the sort of female Salinger did not seem to care for. How much
better, though, to make her the subject of hilarity, as Cleese
& Connie Booth did, than the sniffy contempt J.D. tends
to deploy (despite all his grand talk of Fat Ladies.)
Scottie B.
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