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    The value of Oscar winner 'Green Book'

    by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency Feb 27, 2019 3 minutes

    I was watching the Oscars when a thought occurred to me: Why does Hollywood love interracial road trip movies?

    Yes, I'm referring to -- among others -- "Green Book," this year's winner of the Oscar for best picture.

    It stars Viggo Mortensen as Tony "Lip" Vallelonga, a blue-collar Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, who takes on the unlikely job in 1962 of driving Donald Shirley, an African-American piano virtuoso of great renown played

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