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2008 Documentary 1h 0m

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

"I'll tell it to the hot, I'll tell it to the cold. I'll tell it to the young, I'll tell it to the old. I don't want no laughin', I don't want no cryin', and most of all, no signifyin'. This is Petey Greene's Washington."

Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of America's first shock-jock, Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene.

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Principal Cast

Don Cheadle

Narrator (voice)

Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr.

self - television and radio talk-show host (archival footage)

Robert Hooks

self - actor and producer

Chuck Brown

self - musician and former cell mate of Petey Greene

Marion Barry

self - former mayor of Washington, DC

Howard Stern

self

Ralph Greene Sr.

self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)

Maggie Floyd

self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)

Dewey Hughes

self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager

Roach Brown

self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary

Frank Smith, Jr.

self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.

Clarence Greene

self - Petey Greene's brother

Ernie Barnes

self - Artiste

Virginia Ali

self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl

Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis

self - President, Southeastern University

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