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Title: Can You Say..."Hero"? Author: Tom Junod. Date: November 1998. Notes. This article was the basis for the plot of the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. A reprinted copy of this article was included in one variation of promotional packages supporting A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Nov 22, 2019 · Mr Rogers Changed Tom Junod's Life. Here's the True Story Behind A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. With the film adaptation of Junod's legendary Esquire story out today, we talked to the...
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Apr 6, 2017 · Entertainment. TV. Can You Say...Hero? Fred Rogers has been doing the same small good thing for a very long time... By Tom Junod Published: Apr 6, 2017. Save Article. This article was...
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My personal favorite piece of the story: Junod describes meeting Mr. Rogers in person for the first time… THE FIRST TIME I CALLED MISTER ROGERS on the telephone, I woke him up from his nap.
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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...
- Rachel E. Greenspan
The movie, which opens November 22, casts Rogers as an agent of change in the life of a cynical journalist played by Matthew Rhys, just as Rogers was a catalyst in the real life of Junod, who...
Nov 7, 2019 · What would Fred Rogers—Mister Rogers—have made of El Paso and Dayton, of mass murder committed to fulfill the dictates of an 8chan manifesto?
