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__ Thursday, January 24 1980 - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Page 3B On “Secrets” Premieres Tuesday SECRETS, a one-hour special on UNC-TV, explores the wide range of activities that can fall under the heading of “secrets.” In this case, a secret isn't something told to a close friend of a skeleton in the family closet. It might be a tidbit from the secret files ol the FBI and CIA or one man’s attempt to beat the Las Vegas casinos at their own game. This magazine-style televi sion special premieres Tuesday, January 29 at 10 p.m. on Channel 58. —Hoot comedian Robert Klein sharpens his repartee with a witty and provocative exploration of our gossip-oriented society. Klein, without his stand-up gags, isn't exactly a host. He's a continuing presence on SECRETS, introdu cing and adding perspective to this show’s unique look at clandestine activities. On SECRETS, Way land Flowers takes his puppet "Madame,” the aging Georgia spinster, into such varied real Manhattan locations as a sex shop, Joli Gabor's chic jewel salon and a fourth grade class. Dick Gregory chooses the FBI and the CIA as locations for his widely improbable Washington tour through the bastions of Federal secrecy to explore the availability of his "files" under the Freedom of Information Act. SECRETS joins in the fascinat ing revelation of Keith Taft s un beatable one-man computer as sault on the blackjack tables of Las -Vegas. Taft won thousands of dollars using a concealed device while a SECRETS crew filmed him - all without the knowledge of a famous Las Vegas casino SECRETS brings you an inter view with Victor Kugler. who provided a haven in his attic for Anne Frank and her laniily in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam Now living in Toronto. Kugler's recol lection of the day of the Frank Family capture has not been diminished by time. Author J.D. Salinger s myste rious self-imposed exile from writing, for publication at least, turns SECRETS to (he pages of “Catcher in the Rye.’’ Interviews with people in Salinger's com munity in New Hampshire reveal a man who wants to keep his per sonal life to himself. / There t more to Donna Sommer than meets the ear, and she proves it when she lights up the borne screen in her first television special, "Donna Sommer — Alive and More,” airing on ABC, Sunday, Jan. 27.
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