After Tony threatens the assailants with a gun, he and Don escape and Tony confesses to Don that he does not actually have a gun. One night, Tony receives a call and hears that Don is getting assaulted by some racist white bar patrons. In the south, Tony and Don must stay in separate hotels based on their race. Tony has to write letters to Dolores, but is stumped, so Don helps him make them more romantic, and teaches Tony that it is wrong to steal when he sees Tony pocketing a gemstone on the road. On the next leg of their journey, Tony introduces Don to some elements of contemporary black culture, such as Aretha Franklin and fried chicken. At the first stop on the tour, Tony waits outside the venue and hears Don playing, impressed by his immense talent. On the road, Tony and Don clash, as Tony is rough around the edges and loud, whereas Don is more refined. Tony begins his job, equipped with a nice car and the ' Green Book,' which is a guidebook for safe restaurants and motels for black people in the segregated South. Her only request of Tony is that he write her letters on the road. When she answers, he asks her permission to take Tony on the road with him, which she gives, relieved that he has a job. The following day, Don calls Tony and asks to speak to his wife, Dolores. Tony is initially interested in the job, but in the course of the interview, Tony reveals his rougher edges and the fact that he harbors some racist feelings.Īt a bar, some mob men that Tony knows offer him a job, but he declines, not wanting to get wrapped up in mafia work. When Tony tells an old contact he is looking for work, the contact gets him an interview at an apartment above Carnegie Hall-the apartment of Don Shirley, a famous pianist whose parents were Jamaican immigrants. Tony is racist, as evidenced by his skepticism about two black men who come over to repair the sink in his apartment. When the Copacabana closes for a few months, Tony needs to find a job. In New York, Tony 'Tony Lip' Vallelongs is a thuggish Italian-American bouncer at the Copacabana who does what he can to make a living. Don Shirley is a prestigious classical/jazz pianist in 1962, looking for a driver and bodyguard to accompany him on a tour through the Midwest and the Deep South.

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