Hours later came a fresh Twitter fracas. "Green Book" screenwriter Vallelonga, whose father, Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, was Dr. Don Shirley's driver, came under fire for a 2015 tweet in which ...

In the final decade of his life, Dr. Don Shirley, the musical genius played by Mahershala Ali in the five-time Oscar-nominated Green Book, faced an upheaval: He was being evicted from his loft ...

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] ...

Peter Farrelly’s film didn’t stop there though, as Tony Lip and Dr. Don Shirley continued to cruise at the box office. Now Green Book has passed another box office milestone. The winner of ...

He “despised” the familiar Don, he said, because he considered ... “Fine,” and invited me to his home that evening. As “Green Book” shows, Dr. Shirley had been living for decades ...

“Green Book,” starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, recently won best picture at the 2019 Oscars. Titled after the namesake of the black traveler’s bible, the latest movie centers on the (very ...

“Green Book” is the latest example of using ... And this film reduces the life of musical genius Dr. Don Shirley to that of a lonely man without a home or family of his own, a man who aids ...

“Green Book” won three Academy Awards Sunday, including best picture, but not everyone was celebrating on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year. Maureen Shirley, whose uncle Don Shirley was ...

(WEAR) — Three Oscar wins Sunday night are boosting interest in the real story behind "Green Book”. Mahershala Ali took home an Oscar for his portrayal of musical virtuoso Dr. Don Shirley.

The niece of the black pianist depicted in the Oscar winning Green Book ... how Shirley's own family dismissed the movie as a 'culturally tone deaf… symphony of lies.' According to Dr Shirley's ...

Green Book has been hit with accusations of misrepresentation by the family of subject Dr Donald Shirley, who disavowed the film and claimed that the central friendship at its heart was a fabrication.