Re: reading terrorism

    The case of John Cleese illustrates how gravely psychotherapy
    can often damage a man's performance.

    Fawlty Towers was surely the peak of his comic work. He wrote
    it in conjunction with the beautiful & witty American, Connie Booth,
    who also played the maid. But he divorced Connie & soon fell
    into the hands of another woman & - much worse - a self-styled
    specialist in family therapy. With the latter, he produced a series
    of do-it-yourself psychology manuals which enjoyed a transient
    success, bringing a forlorn smile to the lips of the sadly abandoned,
    the chronically rejected, the professionally self-pitying.

    Since then, nothing. While the exPython Michael Palin has gone on
    to make good natured travelogues & Terry Scott successful documentaries
    about the ancient world, Cleese disgraces himself with this kind
    of limping leap for the Anti-Bush bandwagon - to be rewarded
    by little more, I assume, than the obligatory reflexive giggle from
    the vast flocks of liberal minded, Guardian-reading baa-baas.

    Then, not so long ago, he threatened to sue some paper or other
    for complaining he was no longer funny. That wasn't so funny.

    Scottie B.

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