“Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything” is a documentary a lot like its subject. It’s sharp and inquiring in a playful way. It asks friendly questions but knows just when to toss in a tough one. It sizes up important people with clear-eyed worldly perception, but it’s also enthralled by the seductions of fame and money and power.
“Tell Me Everything” delivers the Barbara Walters story, in all its tasty fascination and significance (for the first 15 years of her television career, she was smashing glass ceilings with every new role she took), and it captures a great deal about Walters as a person because it refuses to be intimidated
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