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...more bad news that the censors will not let them report. But soon there is terrorism in Saigon's streets, a terrorist in Adrian's life, even terror in his heart when a reportorial mission in the field goes awry. Both compassion and panic invade his routines. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, Tin Men) has always been good at wiring comic asides to a delay fuse, but this entire movie works on that principle. You may be out on the sidewalk before you realize that these are not just broadcasters. They represent the confused voices of all America registering shock...
...irreverence and lost innocence. Mostly, it puts its star behind an Armed Forces Radio mike to devise some stratospheric ad libs. The monologues, the English lessons for Vietnamese students and Adrian's chat with a truckload of G.I.s were all improvised under the astute eye of Director Barry Levinson. "Barry lets you be free," Williams notes, "but not so free you're floundering. He sets up these little cones, like the ones they put on the freeway. If you knock one over...
...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...
...Levinson is best known for hissemi-autobiographical comedy-dramas "Diner" and"Tin Men," and "The Natural. The screenplay for"Good Morning, Vietnam" was written by formerM*A*S*H screenwriter Mitch Markowitz...
...middle-class tragedy played as sprightly farce. B.B.'s virgin Caddy, with one-sixteenth of a mile on it, collides with Tilley's car. B.B. steals Tilley's restless wife (Barbara Hershey). Tilley defenestrates his wife's clothes and assaults the intruding B.B. with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions...