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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Bombshell (2019)

The movie is not aptly names since it should have come as no surprise that Fox News tolerated sexual harassment from the top down.  It would have been a bombshell if they treated women as equal partners, both intellectually and professionally. 
The film outlines what happened before and during the summer of 2016, when “Fox & Friends” morning show co-host Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against the former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and Megyn Kelly—the network’s biggest star at that point—came forward with Ailes harassment tales of her own.
Chalize Theron is magnificent.  She plays Megyn Kelly to a tee, embodying the anchor with eerie accuracy. You feel as if you’re watching Kelly herself, and the fact that she’s doing an extended walk-and-talk to explain the inner workings of the conservative news network accomplishes a couple of crucial things right off the top. Kelly shares in conspiratorial tones who the players are, how the power structure operates and what people must do to survive—especially if they want those coveted spots on air. and it softens her for those of us who find the real Kelly to be too edgy.  

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