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...Adrian Cronauer is a military misfit. As protagonist of the first major service comedy about Viet Nam -- and what sometimes seems to be the last, dead-on surreal word on the subject -- he appears in Saigon in 1965 out of uniform and out of step with army manners, protocol and discipline. An irrepressibly irreverent motormouth, he is unable to fit the format of Armed Forces Radio (basically hygiene lectures and Mantovani records), where he is the new disk jockey...
Barry Levinson, the director of "Good Morning, Vietnam," and the film's producer. Mark Johnson, will discuss the movie which stars actor-comedian Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer, an irreverent and immensely popular dise-jockey on the Armed Forces Vietnam Network...
...carry their own music racks and chairs wherever they go, pay for instrument repairs and similar incidentals out of their own pockets. "The hardest job is to convince people that we're a symphony orchestra and not a band," explains the orchestra's advance man, Sergeant Regis Cronauer. "At one post they wanted us to play in an abandoned hangar that had become a bird sanctuary." The men of the Seventh Army Symphony are required to perform no Army duties "except to wear the uniform properly," and except for their own tubas, trumpets and trombones they hear...