Well, it’s official: A Madoff miniseries is coming soon to a television screen near you. Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss is slated to star as the notorious fraudster in ABC’s multi-part something or other based on Brian Ross’ book The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth. Fun, right?
Obviously, a big splashy adaptation of one of the most shameful episodes in American Jewish and economic history was inevitable. The fall of the House of Madoff, in all its cruelty, hubris, and abjection is second only to that of the House of Atreus in terms of tragic dramatic potential. (You can almost imagine it adapted, Greek-style, with a chanting chorus and scenes of Olympian interference.) And Dreyfuss, an intense live-wire of an actor whom we haven’t seen nearly enough of lately, seems like a perfect choice for the Queens-born, self-justifying sociopath.
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