Mike Frank notes:



>  . . . what remains to be determined is whether this is a change in
> the signifier merely or in the signified as well . . . or, to put
> it less stuffily, is maddy really more sexual than phyllis or is
> she, to appropriate jessica rabbit's wonderful formulation,
> merely drawn that way??

My point too, Mike!  (I should have checked your post before sending
mine!)  But now that I think of it, it is ironic that Jessica turns out
to be more like Lauren Bacall in THE BIG SLEEP than like Phyllis--and
voiced by BODY HEAT'S Kathleen Turner, no less!

Don Larsson

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Donald Larsson
Minnesota State U, Mankato
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