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Esquire (Magazine) - The Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Archive. 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.
- ‘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...
- Rachel E. Greenspan
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...
- Brady Langmann
- Entertainment Editor
- blangmann@hearst.com
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.
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 ...
- TOM JUNOD
Nov 22, 2019 · The film's protagonist is journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a cynic who is assigned by his editors at Esquire to write a profile on Rogers. As he gets to know the children's TV show...
Nov 22, 2019 · Lloyd Vogel Is Based On A Real Journalist Who Praises The Mr. Rogers Biopic. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (opens Nov. 22) tells the story of one writer's experience profiling Fred...
