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.
Director
Loren MendellWriters
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
Sandra Butler
self - retired tv executive
Martin Luther King Jr.
self - archival footage
Sugar Ray Leonard
self - boxing legend
James Brown
self - sportscaster
Alfred Liggins, III
self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One