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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 1, 1998 · Heroes. Can You Say...“Hero”? Fred Rogers has been doing the same small good thing for a very long time. November 1 1998 TOM JUNOD. Sign In to read this article. Get instant access...
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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...
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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 · - Mr. Rogers Profile Interview. 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....
Nov 21, 2019 · Hero?" (which originally appeared in the November 1998 issue) is available to read in its entirety on the Esquire website. The article opens with an anecdote about a beloved stuffed rabbit...
Nov 20, 2019 · Journalist Tom Junod on Fred Rogers' 'Spiritual Genius'. By Kimberly Winston. Nov 20, 2019. Not every journalist can say they’ve seen Mr. Rogers naked. But Tom Junod beheld the late...
