'Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything' Review: Captures Her Brilliance as an Interviewer…and the Fusion of Politics and Entertainment She Helped
On TV, she presented herself as a fighting mensch, someone who could disarm you with that sympathetic twinkle in her eye. Yet off camera she could be ruthless. She burned through romantic relationships as if they were seasonal shopping sprees, and one of her closest friends was the dreaded and infamous Roy Cohn. She was complicated. And so was the place she occupied in journalism.