78. hired Schonfeld Schonfeld, Me and Ted Against the World, 13–14.
79. In the spring of 1975 Kermit Bloomgarden Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society.
80. Arnaud d’Usseau C. Gerald Fraser, “Arnaud d’Usseau, 73, Playwright, Screenplay Writer and Instructor,” New York Times, Feb. 1, 1990.
81. Ailes persuaded Coors Letter from Roger Ailes to Joseph Coors, undated; letter from Roger Ailes to Kermit Bloomgarden, May 29, 1975. Ailes perhaps also turned to TVN as a source of funding for the Kennedy television special. Robert Pauley’s handwritten notes include a reference to Ailes’s wildlife documentary. “Kennedy show cost $120,000,” Pauley wrote in April 1975, indicating that the company may have invested in it.
82. a throng of reporters Laurie Johnston, “Notes on People,” New York Times, Sept. 3, 1975.
83. “I hope his mom” Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
84. In November 2005 Matea Gold, “Fox News Displays a Green Side,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 2005.
85. “Those guys were absolutely convinced” Author interview with Robert Kennedy Jr.
86. A few months later “Climatologist to Do Fox News Interview,” Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch, May 20, 2006.
87. “Roger believes” Author interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. Ionescapade creator and director Robert Allan Ackerman echoed Kennedy’s dislike of Fox News. In the fall of 2003, Bill O’Reilly and other prominent Republicans raised hell over a CBS miniseries about Ronald Reagan directed by Ackerman. The series had not yet aired, but portions of the script had leaked. “The right wing went completely ballistic,” Ackerman said, recalling that executives at the network “were starting to get all sorts of death threats.” Under pressure, CBS CEO Les Moonves killed the series. As a compromise, a shortened version aired on CBS’s cable channel Showtime. “I was so disgusted by it,” Ackerman said. “We were forced to tell everyone it was put on the way we wanted it, but it wasn’t true. That was it for me,” he said. “I made one film after that.”
88. multiple campaigns Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield. In an interview, Monks did not recall Ailes criticizing his campaign positions.
89. “This guy has got to learn” Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
90. When Monks was campaigning Ibid.
91. During one town hall meeting Ibid.
92. Monks lost Christian P. Potholm, The Splendid Game: Maine Campaigns and Elections, 1940–2002 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2004), 98.
93. “Roger liked thirty-second” Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
94. One time Monks brought Ibid.
95. “psychological adjustment” James C. Condon, “Coaching Executives on Stage Presence,” New York Times, Feb. 6, 1977.
96. He developed a $4,000 seminar Ibid.
97. Polaroid, Philip Morris, and Sperry Ibid.
98. In October 1983 “Articles of Incorporation, Ailes Business Communications, Inc.,” Oct. 4, 1983. “Agreement and Plan of Merger of Ailes Business Communications Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation with and into Ailes Communications, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation,” March 22, 1985; “Certificate of Merger,” July 5, 1985.
99. He traveled to Rome The name of the documentary was Fellini: Wizards, Clowns and Honest Liars. See John J. O’Connor, “TV Weekend,” New York Times, Sept. 2, 1977.
100. When he came back Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
101. On September 20, 1976 Krebs, “Kermit Bloomgarden, Producer of Many Outstanding Plays, Dead.”
102. About a year later Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
103. Present Tense Richard Eder, “Stage: ‘Present Tense’ Out of Sequence,” New York Times, Oct. 5, 1977.
104. Garrett experienced limited success Sharbutt, “Kelly Garrett Isn’t ‘Overnight’ Success”; www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search.
105. “When she didn’t get” Author interview with Paul Turnley.
106. Garrett was devastated Author interview with a friend of Kelly Garrett.
107. Ailes tried to help Liz Smith, “Sherrie Rollins Won’t Follow Hubby to Perot,” as printed in The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, June 12, 1992. Smith wrote: “When the White House is chasing, begging you to come back … (as I know is perfectly well the case with former political mastermind Roger Ailes, even though he denies it), and you prefer to stay in show biz and tout a singer you are handling, then it behooves all of us denizens of the night to check that singer out. So what has Kelly Garrett got that makes Roger Ailes so high on her talent? Well, I just answered my own question.… Kelly opens June 16 through the 27 at the Supper Club, and New York will get the chance to applaud her once again.”
108. In 2006, she moved Tom Sharpe, “Kelly Garrett, 1944–2013: Acclaimed Singer Had Roots in New Mexico,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 12, 2013.
109. In 1977 Author interview with a friend of Roger Ailes from this period.
110. He named Norma Richard Eder, “Stage: ‘Present Tense’ Out of Sequence.”
111. “Roger made the people” Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
112. In 1976, eight years after “Lunatics, Drunkards, Divorces, 1977–1978.”
113. She took possession Indenture filed on March 3, 1977, in the Deed Book in the Recorder of Deeds Office, Media, Pennsylvania, Book 2604, page 1139; deed filed on July 18, 2007, in the Recorder of Deeds Office, Media, Pennsylvania, Instrument Number 2007064022, Book/Page: RECORD-04156/2034. Although Marjorie Ailes never remarried, she had a longtime companion, Jim Jeffreys, a volunteer fireman and code enforcement officer in Media, Pennsylvania.
114. “I’ve spent my life” Author interview with Roger Ailes’s first wife, Marjorie Ailes.
115. In 1981, Ailes married Ferrer Chafets, Roger Ailes, 42.
116. She idolized her husband Baer, “Roger Rabid.”
117. Shortly before Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield. Rosenfield has written, directed, and produced numerous comedies and is director of the American Comedy Institute in New York City, http://www.comedyinstitute.com/.
EIGHT: RISKY STRATEGY
1. On January 31 Vincent Canby, “Movie Review: Screen: ‘Power,’ by Sidney Lumet,” New York Times, Jan. 31, 1986.
2. Richard Gere starred David Denby, “Dressed for Success,” New York, Feb. 17, 1986.
3. When one client Brian McNair, Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Press, 2010), 189.
4. “Richard practically” Author interview with Democratic political consultant Joel McCleary.
5. 1990 presidential election Frederick Kempe, “Should Arias Return His Nobel? Since the Prize, Costa Rica’s Leader Has Had Nothing but Trouble,” Washington Post, Dec. 11, 1988.