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Novel-based series shows some early scandal: 'The Way We Live Now' airs tonight
From: Charleston Daily Mail
Date: 20020401
Author:KEVIN McDONOUGH
GREED, political scandal and duplicitous investment schemes didn't start with Enron. Or Whitewater. When English novelist Anthony Trollope returned home from a world tour in 1872 he was shocked at the vulgar, money-grubbing ways of his country's aristocracy and rising moneyed class. He poured his outrage into the novel "The Way We Live Now," which has been lavishly adapted for "Masterpiece Theatre" (9 p.m., WVPTV).
David Suchet ("Poirot") portrays the financier Augustus Melmotte. The upper crust folk look down on him, but they flock to Melmotte anyway, because he has money and they do not. ...
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