![]() And also similar to Crowe, her main direction is to project an air of indefatigable social conservatism and borderline conspiracist mania about the state of America and traditional law and order. Like her onscreen scene partner Crowe, Sienna Miller is caked with appearance-altering makeup to take on the affect of her muse, Beth Ailes (née Elizabeth Tilson). Fittingly, he left a “memory box” behind for his young son, Zachary, that included a copy of The Art of War with an inscription that concluded, “Don’t try to win … win!” And in a rival unauthorized bio, longtime Newsweek editor and Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Alter outlined how Ailes’s methods for mitigating intrusion included working from a supply closet when necessary, bombproofing his office, and hiring two personal bodyguards. In his book, Sherman gets no less than Ailes’s brother to confirm that some kind of secretive “panic room” did exist. In one scene, his wife, Beth, gives Lindsley a tour of their estate’s underground survival bunker, complete with tunnel leading out to the Hudson River in case of emergency. Throughout Loudest Voice, he’s alarmed not merely at the possibility of terroristic infiltrations on our soil but specifically targeting him and his family and their palatial home in Garrison, New York. But the show also emphasizes the depths of Ailes’s paranoia and narcissism. Sherman’s voluminous reporting on Ailes, along with testimony in court, via the media or even by way of self-published memoirs, supports both the finer points of Ailes’s upbringing and the broad strokes of his notoriously tyrannical behavior (if not the “MAGA” origin story). That, and it depicts him sexually brutalizing and/or harassing female employees including popular daytime host Gretchen Carlson and booker Linda Luhn as well as grooming a young conservative journalist named Joe Lindsley to be his propaganda puppet and loyal sycophant. In the miniseries’ telling, he not only defined Republican orthodoxy dating back to the mid-1990s but engineered Donald Trump’s presidential run and even coined the “Make America Great” slogan that has become the stuff of polarizing political legend. ![]() He says, eats, grabs, and conquers what he wants (including, as alluded to in episode five, a failed stab at producing on Broadway) when he wants, because on some level he’s filling the hole bored into him by an abusive father, oppressive mother, and childhood spent struggling with hemophilia. The Roger Ailes seen in Loudest Voice is heavyset, histrionic, blindingly jingoistic and xenophobic, sexist, and - despite his success - simplistic in his worldview. But he is merely one among several showy names populating the cast, including Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson, Sienna Miller as Ailes’s wife, Beth, and Seth MacFarlane in a relatively dramatic turn as predatory PR man Brian Lewis.Īs is increasingly the case with these real-life adaptations, audiences want to know: How closely did these actors’ dramatizations of their alter egos hew to the real thing? To help determine that, here’s a dossier detailing the veracity of their performances, covering the first five episodes (which span the events of 1995 through 2012), with updates to come as Loudest Voice quiets to a close. The seven-part miniseries, primarily adapted from onetime New York reporter Gabriel Sherman’s 2014 biography of late Fox News kingpin Roger Ailes and his two-decade-plus reign there, boasts a bravura performance from Russell Crowe as the divisive and eventually disgraced network exec. Per its title, Showtime’s The Loudest Voice is far from subtle. RIP.” via Twitter, the tweet went online, Ailes spoke to a reporter from The Daily Beast and continued ripping Rupert Murdoch and the spiraling Fox News channel – which has already lost $53 million this year – apart.Left, Russell Crowe, Russell Crowe’s facial prosthetics Right, Roger Ailes. He has the checkbook but could never come close to your genius. ![]() “It took you 20 years to build Fox News into the powerhouse that it was and only 6 years for the Murdochs to wreak havoc,” Elizabeth Ailes’ tweet went on. “Happy Heavenly Birthday Roger Ailes,” Elizabeth Ailes wrote in the tweet, before laying into Rupert Murdoch and the Murdoch family, which governs Fox Corp. In the tweet, Elizabeth Ailes mocked the rapid collapse of Fox News, linking it to the Murdoch-backed ousting of Roger Ailes in 2016. Chairman Rupert Murdoch in a birthday tweet dedicated to her late husband. Elizabeth Ailes, the widow of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who presided over the network’s meteoric rise to the top of the cable news industry, fileted Fox Corp. ![]()
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