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Her wake-up call became famous: "Good Morning, Vietnam". Now Adrian Cronauer, the moderator whose story has gone around the world thanks to Hollywood and Robin Williams, has died at the age of 79.
By Katrin Brand, ARD Studio Washington
It is six o'clock in the morning in Saigon, is 1965 or 1966, and Adrian Cronauer begins his morning program for US troops in Vietnam. He prefers to play rock'n'roll rather than stifling ballads, and prefers to listen to local radio rather than military stations.
Knowing how to get out of fictional Vietnam
Up to here, the story of Adrian Cronauer, the radio host that Robin Williams has made famous a. "Good Morning, Vietnam", shot in 1987, tells the story of a moderator of the APN armed with his superiors, in love with a Vietnamese who does not like to divide the people in good and bad and ends up being expelled from Vietnam. [19659003ThispartofthehistoryasCronauerlalwaysremaineddeliveredwasnotalledHehadnotexpulsedhewasrestalloveryearandreceivedaproperdischarge
After his military service, he had continued working as a presenter and lecturer on the radio, teaching and directing an advertising agency
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In 1979, he and a friend finally had the idea of writing a screenplay about the Vietnam War, which was to tell a different story from the war films filmed so far. was filmed by Barry Levinson.
The film had little to do with the original screenplay. "A lot of Hollywood hype and a lot of imagination," Cronauer said later.
Later took care of veterans
After all, that he was loved as a radio host, it was true.Also, his wake up call, which gave his title to the film, was popular.with one exception, a soldier took his rifle and "shot" on his radio
Cronauer studied film recipes, became a lawyer and took care of veterans' concerns.
On Wednesday, he is in a house of nursing in Virginia at the age of 79.
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