“Barbara Walters tell me everything” is a documentary that is very similar to its subject. It is sharp and inquires in a fun way. He asks friendly questions, but he knows only when to throw in difficult questions. It transmits the important people with worldly awareness, but it is also fascinated by the temptations of fame, money and power.
“Tell Me Everything” presents the story of Barbara Walters, with all its delicious charm and importance (during the first fifteen years of her TV career, she was breaking the glass ceilings with every new role she did), and she captures a lot about Walters as a person because she refuses to be reduced to be made up of being. On TV, she presented herself as Minsh’s mortality, a person who can disarm you with this sympathetic sympathetic in her eyes. However, you may be outside the camera without mercy. It was burned through romantic relationships as if it were an effective shopping, and one of her close friends was Roy Cohen. It was complicated. Likewise, the place you occupied was in the press.
For a while, the movie tells two stories at the same time: The Chronicle of Walters’ Rise in TV News, and the biggest meaning she practices because she was a woman. In 1961, when she joined the “Today’s Show” from NBC, she was brought to cover “Woman’s stories” (we see her in one clip in Playboy Bunny clothes). While this in itself was historical, it was up to it for the exit from the mentality of the remains of the fifties of the last century.
In 1971, it is irony that a great break for her, when the new host of the “Today Program”, Frank McGe, on the network, insisted that he be allowed to ask the first three questions to any guest. This is angry Walters, so I began to follow the idea of ​​conducting interviews outside the studio. What no one, even the tars, has guessed it is that it will create its artistic artistic shape.
As an interview, she was personal, bound, honest, accessible, and penetration. In its glossy path, it was revolutionary, because it went to places at the human level that was trained on the responsible male television interviews, and even righteous people, not. So although she was fighting dozens of sexual sexual concepts, her gender sensitivity gave her a great advantage. I have helped classifications. Then something happened to you. In 1974, Frank McGoy surrendered to cancer in 52 years. In the Wallets, if you leave the offer at all, you will become a participant. It became the first host “Today’s offer” on April 22, 1974.
But the male hatred that I faced was unusual. McGe tried to get it out, and when she was appointed away by ABC to be the first network news broadcaster in America, she participated in hosting “ABC Evening News” with a major salary of one million dollars a year, her participation, Harry Sifet, dealt with her with a cold contempt. During the display recordings, they were avoided by Direction and Crew. She called for a “error” job. But then, it was provided to Roone Arledge, which turned ABC SPORTS into one entertainment complex, the opportunity to do the same with the news section. Arledge Save Walters. Her interview offers for an hour were about to become their own news.
“Tell her everything,” opens with a montage in which we see and Trez asks one of the basic interview questions that are not flooded, to a variety of topics: for Richard Nixon (“Are you sorry because you did not burn the tapes?”), To Barbra Streisand (“Why don’t you have your nose?” machineWhat a question! “).
“Sitting with Barbara Walters” says, “Sinthia” says. “Andy Cohen describes how as an opposite topic, you will be surrounded by flowers and sensitive lighting, only to strike you Barbara with this strict question – which was, in some way, the question that everyone gathered about the TV to see it. Opera Winfrey, Koni Chung and Beit Midler presented memories of the exact ways he played and tars its power. You have produced a wonderful TV, and you can say that there is a distance Ethical – Using “Gotcha” very strategic! He laughs Education was.) What could be the error in that?
Waltz received a lot of criticism, along the lines that were raising it in the news, and “telling me everything” tend to consider this criticism another example of behind sexual journalistic culture. But there is a larger picture that the documentary never faces. There was something greater than Barbara Walter, although it (unintentionally) helped pave the way for that. This American metaphysical transformation of news was in entertainment.
In 1977, Wallets arrived in the Middle East to attend the summit meeting of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli President Menchim Minashim, and the documentary explains to us how Walter Cronsight was unhappy and John Chiselor was there. Start with flirtations with her in an individual interview, then we see Sadat, in a joint interview, and they rejected the idea that Arab leaders will abandon one inch of the “occupied” lands-and answering and citing that, no challenge to him, but to behave as everything will be fine. In the documentary, Katie Corik looked back at that moment and says: “Walter Kronkate later conducted an interview with the two, but frankly if it’s not first, you are nothing.” But is this really the case? Only if you become part of the peace process as his entertainment.
“Tell me everything” entering the company’s return to the alleys in the Wallets profession, which rose after Diane Sawyer was brought to ABC to participate in “Primetime”. The show was a direct challenge to Walters on “20/20”, and he responded to its new rival by becoming obsessed with it. Wallets thought about Sawyer as a “blonde goddess” and “the ideal woman”, and the insecurity was huge. Their parallel career has become the “Gets” competition. Who can call the most hot interview first? Wallets won more than she lost, and became a group of journalism mentality as a scale in the classifications is its exclusive interview with Monica Lewinsky, who became the highest television interview in all ages (70 million people watched). Waltz gave a party in her fifth apartment Avenue on the night she was broadcast. But this only sealed the way our public life has become a circuit of scandal conversion.
The movie devotes his last 15 minutes to “The View”, a largely created show, and that was on its way, like anything you have done at all. The show brought the intimate relationship of the woman’s voices directly to the American living rooms. It was gossip, non -resistance, and revelation. The Wallets profession (perhaps by 10 years) has extended, but more than that was the achievement of her press doctrine: revealing how the personality and politics were desperately, forever. (This is what York Times Magazine means when “The View” chose the most important political offer at its moment.) But “The View” worked brilliantly as it did because it happened in the post -transformation world. Politics and entertainment are now the same. They were attached. Our head of our artist has not yet been elected, but the theater has been developed.