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‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ Review: A Shrewd Documentary About TV’s Most Feared Journalist — Sundance
A sharp, propulsive portrait of the hostile, dignified newsman who may have transformed television news into a weapon of mass destruction.
Mike Wallace, perhaps the most feared and influential TV journalist (or “personality”) of the 20th century, lived his entire life in some kind of shame. It started with the acne that he had as a child, and assumed a new form when he entered the brave new world of television as an adult in 1949. Back then, when the medium was still just a public experiment, Wallace seemed happy enough to host game shows and star in the awkwardly sincere commercials that once dominated the airwaves; he even did a little bit of acting (under a pseudonym) on a police drama that invited viewers to call in and guess the identity of the killer. The truth, however, was that Wallace needed to be taken seriously — he needed the validation that he never felt he deserved — and that longing followed him for all of his days as only self-doubt can.
It started as a whisper in his ear, and grew into a roar as he became more respected. By the time his disquiet had bloomed into clinical depression, Wallace was already a household name. His suicide attempt came several decades into his gig as the lead reporter on CBS’ prestigious “60 Minutes,” but, as the late newsman is heard admitting towards the end of Israeli filmmaker Avi Belkin’s propulsive and brilliantly assembled new documentary: “When you’re obsessed with what a fourth-rate individual you are, you contemplate anything to get out of it.”
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