"Talk to Me" directed by Kasi Lemmons [review]
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Date
2008-02-21
Authors
Prescott, Nick
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A fitting film to review on radio, this: Talk to Me tells the quite fascinating story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Green, an African-American ex-convict who, in the mid-late 1960s, became a sensation, a radio personality the likes of whom Washington DC had never heard. Don Cheadle, the brilliant actor who has done so much great work with Steven Soderbergh (most people think of him as the fun-loving Basher Tarr from the Ocean’s films, but he’s also done great work in Traffic and Out of Sight) here plays the real-life (and larger-than-life) figure of Green, who, without any real training in either public speaking or radio work, talked his way onto the American airwaves in 1966 and changed them forever.
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Radio, ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Review, Film, Movie
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Prescott, Nick. 2008. Review of "Talk to Me", directed by Kasi Lemmons. 891 ABC Adelaide website.