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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.
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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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
You’ll probably need an infusion of something like this to restore your faith in humanity after an overload of Frank Underwood. Even after he's gone, Mr. Rogers still has the ability to warm ...
Apr 6, 2017 · Yes, it should be easy being Mister Rogers, but when four o'clock rolls around, well, Mister Rogers is tired, and so he sneaks over to the piano and starts playing, with dexterous, pale...
Sep 9, 2021 · The Falling Man. It was a devastating image, so laden with pain and meaning, capturing the horror of the day more profoundly than any other. It haunted Junod. Who was the man in the image?...
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