Another day, another drama for TV kingpin Taylor Sheridan. The Yellowstone creator is under fire for his portrayal of a real-life military program in Lioness, which is now airing its third season on Paramount+. By whom? The actual women who served in the Team Lioness program. See what the operative alums had to say about Sheridan below.—Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor
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Turns out, there’s very little in common between the actual Lioness operatives and their Hollywood counterparts.
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Believe it or not, Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman’s CIA drama, Lioness, isn’t exactly accurate. Naturally, it’s par for the course for Hollywood productions to amp up the action and exaggerate the story. So, even though Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan based his all-female CIA task force on a real-life operation, it makes sense that there’s very little in common between the actual Lioness operatives and their Hollywood counterparts.
Still, it’s not great when the actual Lioness operatives aren’t fans of their on-screen depictions. In an interview with The Telegraph, Ranie Ruthig, one of the original Lionesses, stated that Sheridan’s Paramount+ series—now its in third season—does very little to celebrate the group’s true milestones. “It makes me mad that it doesn’t follow what we did at all,” Ruthig told The Telegraph. “They took the Team Lioness name and twisted it into a spy thing. I like Taylor Sheridan’s writing—I’ve watched his other shows—but he took our history and kind of corrupted it.”
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For proof that men in their sixties, and beyond, can still be stylish, you need only look at the boardrooms of the fashion industry itself. British founder-designer Sir Paul Smith, seventy-nine, is a walking billboard for the well-cut navy suit. And at the spritely age of eighty-five, Mr. Ralph Lauren is a testament that the innate sense of adventurous pleasure that style offers—be it westernwear, classic prep, or even slick Wall Street tailoring—is open to all, whatever age they may be.
But some of the latest big-ticket ad campaigns have highlighted a specific demographic: men in their sixties. Designer Peter Saville, sixty-nine, appeared in a Ferragamo campaign recently. Watch collector Auro Montanari, sixty-seven, was in a recent Zegna campaign. Actor Richard E. Grant, sixty-eight, took the runway with aplomb for Burberry. Hollywood offers even more inspiration: Sixty-four-year-old George Clooney, sixty-one-year-old Brad Pitt, and sixty-eight-year-old Spike Lee remain among the most stylish men in show business. It seems sexagenarians have never been cooler.
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There is a universal agony so tediously mundane yet excruciatingly painful that it makes even this lapsed Catholic beg the Lord to please, please, please, let me fall asleep.
This sleeplessness, in which I don’t so much inhabit my body as watch it roll around from a metaphysical place far beyond me, is not a one-night thing. It started in January. It’s March now. And it’s always the same. In the darkness of my Philadelphia bedroom, I wrap myself in the baby-blue comforter at 10:00 p.m., adjust my memory-foam pillow just so, turn on my side, close my eyes, and seek the mythical seven to nine hours recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My alarm is set for 6:00 a.m., at which time I will arise, sluggish, rush a shower, skip breakfast, and prepare for the roughly two-hour commute to the office for the job I started ten months ago—which feels a long way off just now.
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