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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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Koko weighed 280 pounds because she is a gorilla, and Mister...
- Can You Say...Hero
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Apr 6, 2017 · Koko weighed 280 pounds because she is a gorilla, and Mister Rogers weighed 143 pounds because he has weighed 143 pounds as long as he has been Mister Rogers, because once upon a time, around ...
- ‘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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February 14, 2014. I’m not sure why — perhaps as a Valentine’s gift to all of us or to make up for the guy who yesterday wrote that men who play with LEGOs are not real men — but last ...
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….
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Nov 21, 2019 · A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is based on a 1998 Esquire profile of Rogers by journalist Tom Junod, but many of its details are straight from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Below, we ...
