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Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything

Barbara Walters

Streaming on Hulu

Barbara Walters could get anyone to talk. Nixon on Watergate! Lewinsky on Clinton! The broadcast reporter and Boston-native got her start on NBC’s Today in 1961, and at her peak helmed ABC’s Evening News and The View. She spoke to the parricidal brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez and the beloved Superman, Christopher Reeve. If you think of any world leader—democratic, revolutionary, fascist, humanist—she probably spoke to them too. Trump. Putin. Castro. Carter. Ford. Pahlavi. Arafat. And certainly the people’s princess, Diana. A new Hulu documentary, Tell Me Everything, does exactly that. Following Walters’s professional rise, the film also reveals secrets from her personal life. Cue affairs and catty feuds! Finally, Barbara Walters gets the Barbara Walters treatment. —Carolina de Armas

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