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Nov 26, 2018 · Everything in writer Nick Vallelonga’s upcoming film Green Book, he insists, is true. The film follows pianist Don Shirley and he travels through the Deep South in the era of Jim Crow and forms a friendship with his driver, white, Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip.
Nov 26, 2018 · The Real-Life Story of Dr. Don Shirley. The true history that inspired Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. By Julie Miller.
Nov 19, 2018 · A fact-check of Green Book reveals that, in this case, the movie is honest in its portrayal of Lip. According to Lip's son, Nick Vallelonga, Lip had indeed been racist before his trip with musician Don Shirley, attributing it to growing up on the Italian-American streets of the Bronx.
Feb 25, 2019 · A Smithsonian Channel documentary, “The Green Book Guide to Freedom,” featuring home movies of African-American families, debuted Feb. 25.
Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's ...
Feb 24, 2019 · Ahead of the 2019 Oscars, here's the true story behind the Oscar-winning film, Green Book. The movie follows that real lives of Dr. Don Shirley and Tony "Lip" Vallelonga.
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Jan 16, 2019 · Him and Dr. Shirley are placed in lockup, wherein the latter demands his phone call, which is awarded to him by the officers, resentfully so. Dr. Shirley is able to contact the Attorney General of the US, who instructs the Governor to have Shirley released immediately.
