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‘Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything’ Review: Captures Her Brilliance as an Interviewer…and the Fusion of Politics and Entertainment She Helped Forge
It's a documentary a lot like its subject: sharp and inquiring in a playful way, and enthralled by fame, money, and power.
In 1971, her big break came, ironically, when the new host of the “Today Show,” Frank McGee, insisted to the network that he be allowed to ask the first three questions of any guest. She called taking the job a “mistake.” But then Roone Arledge, who had turned ABC Sports into a one-network entertainment complex, was given the opportunity to do the same thing with the news division. Oprah Winfrey, Connie Chung, and Bette Midler offer telling recollections of the subtle ways that Walters wielded her power.
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