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Esquire (Magazine) Title: Can You Say..."Hero"? Author: Tom Junod Date: November 1998
- ‘I Had No Idea How to Write About A Person Like Fred’
- ‘Goodness Is as Mysterious and Interesting to Write About as Badness’
- ‘Tom Plays Fred as A Person to Be Reckoned With’
Before he was assigned to interview Rogers for an Esquire issue about American heroes, Junod had earned a bit of an unsavory reputation. In an October 1997 cover story titled “Kevin Spacey Has a Secret,” he coyly outed the actor, though Spacey refused at the time to confirm or deny any speculation about his sexuality. The story led to a tailspin of...
Working with Mister Rogers wasn’t easy for Junod. And Rogers was’t shy about switching the roles of interviewer and interviewee, asking questions and trying to learn more about his new friend. Still, the journalist didn’t know what to make of the TV host. “It was a complete mystery to me, how he could be who he was, how he could stay who he was,” J...
If Mister Rogers were alive today to see A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Junod is pretty sure that he would enjoy the film. “I think he would have liked that Tom [Hanks] sort of straddles the line between following Fred’s gestures and mannerisms, but not doing an imitation of Fred,” he says. “I think Tom plays Fred as a person to be reckoned w...
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Nov 1, 1998 · Exclusive & Unlimited access to Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive. Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933. Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads! 85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors. More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every ...
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Nov 22, 2019 · Tom Junod. There’s a moment in “Can You Say…. Hero?” —Tom Junod’s Esquire profile on Fred Rogers, one of the all-time great magazine stories—when the writer is searching for the ...
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Apr 6, 2017 · He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to go to seminary upon graduation. His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents ...
Nov 21, 2019 · Before the movie hits theaters on Nov. 22, you'll want to read the article upon which the story is based, written by the jaded Esquire journalist himself, Tom Junod. Junod may have only been ...
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Feb 27, 2013 · Synopsis: A profile of Fred Rogers, or as we know him from the Neighborhood, from childhood, Mister Rogers. Today marks the 10th anniversary of his death. There are some stories we can analyze all we want, but sometimes there are stories in which, no matter how much we pick them apart, what’s on the surface….
