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Apologies towards the opening credits in the TV sitcom “The Odd Couple,” but that’s the pertinent question in “Green Book,” a new (yet familiar) odd-couple heartwarmer directed by Peter Farrelly of “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary” fame www.chilimovie.com . A crowd-pleasing hit with the Toronto International Film Festival in September, the movie might not be accurate history. It may not be also particularly considering one of its two main characters, many different reasons.But with actors as wily as Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, and also a ringer we’ll reach a minute, the quality from the material matters lower than usual.

In 1962, the African-American concert pianist and recording artist Don Shirley embarked with a concert tour on the Midwest as well as the South, chauffeured by Italian-American Tony Vallelonga. Better known as “Tony Lip” round the Bronx, plus the vicinity on the Copacabana nightclub where he worked as being a bouncer, Shirley’s record label hired Vallelonga as driver. In many towns the performer was legally barred from remaining in hotels spacious to whites. The AAA-style “Negro Motorist Green Book,” information on affordable lodging for black motorists driving institutionally segregated times, gives director Farrelly’s cheerfully fictionalized account its title.

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