"This is the perfect role for Robin," says producer Mark Johnson, who also takes to the boards in "Good Morning, Vietnam" as Adrian Cronauer's compatriot Sloan. "Nobody else works with the inventiveness, the quickness and the zaniness of Robin Williams. When he sat down in the control booth to do the scenes involving Cronauer's broadcasts, we just let the cameras roll. He managed to create something new for every single take."
http://www.levinson.com/bl/gmvietnam/prod.htm
I particularly liked his news flash - "Ethel Merman being used to block Russian radar".
As a film it's not overall a success, though the character's absorption into Thai, sorry I mean Vietnamese, culture, and the way Forest Whitaker gets him to act for the troops who are stuck with them in traffic, work.
With Bruno Kirby, Robert Wuhl, Tung Thanh Tran, J.T. Walsh, Nobel Willingham.
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