Newsweek, October 14th, 1996
FORGET THE TOTE BAGS, Bill Moyers self-help tapes and Three Tenors T shirts. PBS may have finally figured out what sells. Moll Flanders, a surprisingly raunchy new "Masterpiece Theatre" series (Oct. 13 and 14), is full of nudity, incest and lesbian scenes. It also happens to be an intelligent and utterly engaging retelling of Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel of lust, survival and protofeminist spirit. Virginia Woolf loved the book. So would Howard Stern.
Defoe is best known for having written the kid-friendly classic "Robinson Crusoe." But, as Russell Baker warns in his parental-discretion intro t...
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