What DJ Adrian Cronauer brought to the airwaves of Saigon, Ralph ‘Petey’ Greene brought to the wirelesses of ’60s Washington. He even had his own rabble-rousing sign-on, an abrasive “Wake up, goddammit!” to rival Cronauer’s “Good morning Vietnam”. Greene’s a “shit-talking, pimp-walking, good-loving” motormouth who spiced up WOL-AM’s stuffy programming with his plain-speaking street smarts and this fictionalised depiction of a real-life institution gives Don Cheadle, if not the role of a lifetime, then certainly of the decade.
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