EXCLUSIVE: On a recent Saturday morning, as I lamented a spate of curiously timed toxic Green Book stories that ... voices of Dr. Donald Shirley and Tony Lip Vallelonga. I thought tracking down ...

Green Book' stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali detail their meticulous research into Tony "Lip" Vallelonga and Dr. Don Shirley and explain why their characters' friendship evolves the way.

Tony Lip, who is depicted as being casually racist ... About Mary,” which he’d made with his brother, Bob, and “Green Book” figured to have lots of comedy in it as well: The culture ...

"Green Book," a film based on a job Vallelonga took ... Nick Vallelonga says. For one, Tony Lip did not look like Viggo Mortensen, who also happens to be nearly 30 years older than his Bronx ...

No Best Picture contender has gotten more mud unfairly slung at it this Oscar season than Green Book ... and Viggo Mortensen for playing Tony Lip, the Copacabana bouncer who drove him on a ...

Green Book has already generated much buzz for the inspiring true story about Italian-American tough guy chauffeur Tony “Tony Lip” Vallelonga and African-American classical piano virtuoso Dr ...

Peter Farrelly's 'Green Book' scored three Golden Globes ... curiosity to their research about Don Shirley as they did to Tony Lip?” Farrelly tells THR he understands why some are skeptical.

Nick Vallelonga: “Green Book” is based on a true story that happened to my father, Frank ‘Tony Lip’ Vallelonga in the early 1960s. A tough, street-smart, New York Italian, Tony Lip was a ...

Tony Lip's Italian Restaurant & Pizza, named after the main character in the Oscar-nominated film, “Green Book,” will host a watch party Sunday night during the Academy Awards. The real life ...

Mahershala Ali, left, as Dr. Donald Shirley and Viggo Mortensen as Tony Lip in director Peter Farrelly's 2018 drama "Green Book." (Photo via Universal Pictures) By Mike Scott, [email protected] ...

This article about “Green Book” first appeared in the Actors ... In the movie, Viggo Mortensen plays Anthony Vallelonga, a.k.a. Tony Lip, who was Nick Vallelonga’s real-life father and ...

Tony Lip's Italian Restaurant & Pizza, named after the main character in the Oscar-nominated film, “Green Book,” will host a watch party Sunday night during the Academy Awards. The real life ...