Tattle Tale

Say the words “top secret” and it’s a green light for spilling the beans. Look at Deep Throat, who leaked scandalous government secrets, or La Toya Jackson, who freed all the Jackson family skeletons. So you really can’t blame L.A.’s acclaimed radio-theater company Theatre Works for presenting Top Secret: The...

By Lilia Menconi

November 1, 2007

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Say the words “top secret” and it’s a green light for spilling the beans. Look at Deep Throat, who leaked scandalous government secrets, or La Toya Jackson, who freed all the Jackson family skeletons. So you really can’t blame L.A.’s acclaimed radio-theater company Theatre Works for presenting Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers. The docudrama, starring Gregory Harrison and John Heard, chronicles the Washington Post’s gutsy 1971 decision to publish a secret study that documented U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Sun., Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., 2007

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