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Traveling with "The Green Book" during the Jim Crow era 09:51. Watching Mary Wilson, feeling the love at New York's glamorous Café Carlyle, it's hard to imagine what she felt at the age of 19 ...
"The Green Book enabled African Americans to travel with dignity and find safe harbors during a period in U.S. history when the vast majority of white-owned businesses, even in large urban areas ...
It didn’t help that “Green Book” came out nearly 30 years after “Driving Miss Daisy,” which won best picture in 1990 when Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” wasn’t even nominated.
One of the producers behind the Oscar-winning but divisive “Green Book” defended the film from criticism over how they told the story, arguing that it was actually aimed towards an older white ...
The Green Book – named after its creator, not the color of its covers – was pocket-sized, about 5 by 7 inches, and published nearly every year from 1937 to 1966.
That said, there’s no denying that the tropes that thread through “Green Book” have been around a long time. It’s a buddy movie. And a road movie. And a Hollywood liberal message movie ...
It is in this self-awareness that “Green Book” claims an unlikely victory, circumventing some of the problematic formulae into which this film could easily have tapped. The filmmakers did not ...
This shouldn’t come as much of a spoiler. “Green Book,” based on a true story and co-written by Tony’s son, Nick, has been promoted as a healing tale of how the two men, played by Viggo ...
A "Green Book" writer said, "We tried to be as truthful as possible." It wasn't all cheers when "Green Book" won the Oscar for best picture Sunday night. Instead, the big win unleashed a wave of ...
All of this makes John Green’s new book, “Everything Is Tuberculosis,” incredibly timely. It is, at its core, a plea to readers to care about a disease that doesn’t directly affect them.
Film Review: ‘Green Book’ Viggo Mortensen gains 30 pounds to play a racist chauffeur who comes around in this feel-good flip on the 'Driving Miss Daisy' formula. By Peter Debruge.
Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen star in Peter Farrelly's 'Green Book,' about an Italian-American bouncer chauffeuring an African-American pianist across the South in the 1960s.