Nick Vallelonga grew up in a quintessential Italian family in a tight-knit, 1960s Bronx community — they went to church, his mother cooked, his father ate. But something differentiated him and his younger brother from the rest of the neighborhood boys: their father was best friends with a world-renowned black piano prodigy in a time and place where interracial friendships were uncommon.
The True Story Behind The Movie Green Book
Rachel E. Greenspan, Time: Entertainment
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 12:02pm
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