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For almost four decades, Dr. Ruth Westheimer has been known as the sweetly unfiltered and honest sex therapist that shared her wisdom via radio, books, TV and her own show. She has since become a pop culture icon and her name has been synonymous with sex. Even so, it’s surprising that no one has made a documentary…

Now 90, Dr. Ruth Westheimer had resisted past overtures to do a documentary, but she was won over by filmmaker Ryan White. Ask Dr. Ruth, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, opens in theaters this weekend via Magnolia Pictures after screening at Tribeca Film Festival this week. The theatrical run…

Oftentimes, it’s the Sundance Film Festival that kicks off Oscar’s Best Documentary Feature Race. This season, three out of five Oscar-nominated docs (RBG, Minding the Gap, and Hale County This Morning, This Evening) emerged from the Utah festival. So naturally, with this track record, Dr. Ruth had concrete ambitions…

Dr. Ruth Westheimer came to TCA to tell TV critics what questions she will not take. “You will never know how much money I have and with whom I am sleeping,” she grinned, as she and director Ryan White came to talk about documentary Ask Dr. Ruth coming to Hulu after its high-profile premiere at 2019 Sundance Film Festi…

Hulu leapfrogged Netflix in January when it dropped its documentary on the Fyre Festival but content chief Craig Erwich urged that this was not a "dig" at its SVOD rival. Moreover, Erwich, speaking at TCA, said both docs, its own Fyre Fraud and Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, created a cultural…