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Jan 29, 2021 · The film 'Green Book' is based on a real-life road trip taken by Black pianist Don Shirley and white bouncer Tony Lip and the unlikely friendship that resulted from the journey.
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.
In the Bronx in 1962, Italian American bouncer Tony Lip searches for new employment while the Copacabana is closed for renovations. He is invited to an interview with Dr. Don Shirley, an African American pianist in need of a driver for his eight-week concert tour through the Midwest and Deep South. Don hires Tony on the strength of his references.
Nov 26, 2018 · His unlikely companion and chauffeur on the 1962 tour was Tony “Lip” Vallelonga—an Italian-American bouncer who had been working in New York City’s Copacabana club.
Dec 14, 2018 · Tony Lip, who is depicted as being casually racist at the beginning of the film, watched the daily indignities of a black man in the South in the early ’60s and became Dr. Shirley’s defender...
Nov 15, 2018 · Lip, who had no musical promise himself, was hired as a driver and protector for Shirley amid the dangers posed by such a journey for a black man in the deep South. And, yes, Tony Lip —...
His life in the early 1960s, when he was the driver and bodyguard for the black classical pianist Don Shirley, was dramatized in the 2018 film Green Book, in which he was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen.
