Editing Adrian Cronauer (section)

==''Good Morning, Vietnam''==
In the late 1970s, while working as the classical music morning host at WVWR in [[Roanoke, Virginia]] (now Virginia Tech's [[WVTF]]),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.roanoke.com/webmin/features/cronauer-in-the-country/article_d239ad5b-3f28-5917-b028-2e3c155f4a64.html|title=Cronauer in the country|last=Times|first=Ralph Berrier Jr. {{!}} The Roanoke|work=[[The Roanoke Times]]|access-date=July 19, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Cronauer had an idea for a television sitcom that would be a blend of ''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'' and ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', two popular TV series of the era. In 1979 he tried to sell a treatment of this idea, basing the story on his experiences in Vietnam, but without success. A few years later he pitched a made-for-TV movie on the same theme: this time, a friend's agent in Hollywood got the treatment into the hands of [[Robin Williams]], who thought the idea was good enough to warrant a feature-length movie starring himself. However, according to Cronauer, little of the film reflects his real life. Among other things, Cronauer was not a subversive person but a "lifelong card-carrying [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]", and later took an "active role" in both [[Bob Dole]]'s unsuccessful [[Bob Dole 1996 presidential campaign|1996 presidential campaign]] and [[George W. Bush]]'s successful [[George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign|2004 presidential reelection campaign]].<ref name="urgentcomm"/> Cronauer did teach English when off-duty in Saigon, but he did not teach swear words or New York street slang. He was never in a Jeep that got hit by a land mine, but he did witness the bombing of a restaurant near the radio station.<ref name = "BBC"/> In a 2014 ''[[Military Times]]'' interview, Cronauer said if he had done some of what the movie said he did, "I'd still be in [[United States Disciplinary Barracks|Leavenworth]]."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://decoy.tvpassport.com/q_a/q-was-adrian-cronauer-whom-good-morning-vietnam-was-based-really-sent-home-early-vietnam-movie-p?subid=national-00001|title=Hollywood Q&A|last=Thomlison|first=Adam|work=[[Winston-Salem Journal]]|via=TV Media|date=July 10, 2021|page=32}}</ref>

The movie, directed by [[Barry Levinson]], told a heavily fictionalized story based on a screenplay by [[Mitch Markowitz]], a screenwriter who had worked on ''M*A*S*H''.<ref name = "NYT"/><ref name="historynet.com"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/08/12/good-morning-vietnam-airman-reacts-robin-williams-death/13954271/|title=Real-life 'Vietnam' DJ recalls Williams' portrayal|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=July 19, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/01/19/good-morning-to-the-real-adrian-cronauer/|title=Good Morning To The Real Adrian Cronauer|work=[[Chicago Tribune|tribunedigital-chicagotribune]]|access-date=July 19, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Cronauer later told friends that Levinson had insisted that Williams and Cronauer not meet until the film was completed as Levinson did not want Williams to try to imitate Cronauer's actions and vocal delivery style.