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 ...

Vallelonga, 60, was the son of “Sopranos” actor Tony Lip ... Nick based “Green Book” on his father’s relationship with Black pianist Don Shirley, who hired Lip to be his bodyguard ...

The actor is the namesake son of the Copacabana bouncer — known as “Tony Lip” — who was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen in the “Green Book” film, which tells the true story of the elder ...

In director Peter Farrelly’s 2018 film “Green Book,” Vallelonga Jr. played his real-life uncle, Rudy Vallelonga, while actor Viggo Mortensen portrayed his father, Tony Lip ... protect classical jazz ...

Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga, a white Italian American bouncer who was hired to protect Black pianist Don Shirley as he toured the Jim Crow South in 1962. “Green Book” is the worst best ...