This content is imported from youTube. cynical writer Lloyd Vogel (based on Junod, but with a fictional estranged dad figure, played by Chris Cooper, so that Rogers can . 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. he asked her, and when she said yes, he said, "Oh, thank you, my dear." ", He was barely more than a boy himself when he learned what he would be fighting for, and fighting against, for the rest of his life. Notes. "Oh, heavens no, Tom! Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), an Esquire journalist known for his jarring exposs but is secretive about his childhood, is the film's protagonist. What is yours named?". Mr. Rogers explains that Lloyd has . 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 for us to appreciate is more . He had been on television before, but only as the voices and movements of puppets, on a program called The Children's Corner. ", The next afternoon, I went to his office in Pittsburgh. 'I love you.'. This has happened so many times that Mister Rogers has come to see that number as a gift, as a destiny fulfilled, because, as he says, "the number 143 means 'I love you.' I said, 'Do you know that you're strong on the inside, too?' And now the boy didn't know how to respond. ", And now Margy comes up behind him and massages his shoulders. I am ashamed to say it, but I was too cool at the time for Mr. Rogers. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood fact check reveals that Lloyd's wife Andrea is mostly fictional as well. Per his piece in The Atlantic, Junod asked the writers for some changes after reading an early draft of the script in April 2016. From hair trends to relationship advice, our daily newsletter has everything you need to sound like a person whos on TikTok, even if you arent. The answer to: What did Fred want? But that is rather missing the point. I told him I didn't mind, and when, five minutes later, I took the elevator to his floor, well, sure enough, there was Mister Rogers, silver-haired, standing in the golden door at the end of the hallway and wearing eyeglasses and suede moccasins with rawhide laces and a flimsy old blue-and-yellow bathrobe that revealed whatever part of his skinny white calves his dark-blue dress socks didn't hide. The tie is next, the scanty black batwing of a bow tie hand-tied at his slender throat, and then the shirt, always white or light blue, whisked from his body button by button. There was an energy to him, however, a fearlessness, an unashamed insistence on intimacy, and though I tried to ask him questions about himself, he always turned the questions back on me, and when I finally got him to talk about the puppets that were the comfort of his lonely boyhood, he looked at me, his gray-blue eyes at once mild and steady, and asked, What about you, Tom? I would love to remove that but I dont know. She spent much of her time tending to the sick and the dying. However, on insistence to keep an open mind, he came to realize that the . He couldn't just say it, the way he could always just say to the children who watch his program that they are special to him, or even sing it, the way he would always sing "It's You I Like" and "Everybody's Fancy" and "It's Such a Good Feeling" and "Many Ways to Say I Love You" and "Sometimes People Are Good." The place was drab and dim, with the smell of stalled air and a stain of daguerreotype sunlight on its closed, slatted blinds, and Mister Rogers looked so at home in its gloomy familiarity that I thought he was going to fall back asleep when suddenly the phone rang, startling him. The ophthalmologists did not want to scare children, so they asked Mister Rogers for help, and Mister Rogers agreed to write a chapter for a book the ophthalmologists were putting togethera chapter about what other ophthalmologists could do to calm the children who came to their offices. He has spent thirty-one years imagining and reimagining those wallsthe walls that have both penned him in and set him free. I like to take pictures of all my new friends, so that I can show them to Joanne. And then, in the dark room, there was a wallop of white light, and Mister Rogers disappeared behind it. Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. When I handed him back the phone, he said, Bye, my dear, and hung up and curled on the couch like a cat, with his bare calves swirled underneath him and one of his hands gripping his ankle, so that he looked as languorous as an odalisque. He is not speaking of the little girl. Look at usI've just met you, but I'm investing in who you are and who you will be, and I can't help it. Everything we can't stop loving . I took the phone and spoke to a womanhis wife, the mother of his two sonswhose voice was hearty and almost whooping in its forthrightness and who spoke to me as though she had known me for a long time and was making the effort to keep up the acquaintance. Her name was Deb. Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933. And my essay from 1998 is the intro for that. I'll let y'all know. Fred turned it on, and as he says now, with plaintive distaste, "there were people throwing pies at one another." "It's Joanne," he said. It had more to do with his relationship to his own father, which was a focal point for the film. Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. With the film adaptation of Junod's legendary Esquire story out today, we talked to the writer about the man who changed his life. After I watched the walkthroughand was somehow briefly enlisted in fashion-show-planning service as the only idle body in sightwe sat down on a couch in the middle of all the swirling fashion-show-planners, and talked about Fred Rogers, what he left behind, and what we do now. An ophthalmologist is a doctor who takes care of the eyes. TJ: Well, I think its always changed, just like yours that way. He rested his head on a small pillow and kept his eyes closed while he explained that he had bought the apartment thirty years before for $11,000 and kept it for whenever he came to New York on business for the Neighborhood. The new film is inspired by the story of Rogers' relationship with journalist Tom Junod, who was assigned to profile Rogers in 1998 for a special issue of Esquire on American heroes. Yeah. He wanted something from the boy, and Mister Rogers never leaves when he wants something from somebody. . Scenes where Lloyd Vogel passes out on the set of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Fred Rogers visits Jerry Vogel with a pie are created for the dramatic purposes of The film's protagonist is journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a cynic who is assigned by his . That light just burned out and there was I mean, that was on fire. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to go to seminary upon graduation. Oh, Margy Whitmer tried to keep people away from him, tried to tell people that if they gave her their names and addresses, Mister Rogers would send them an autographed picture, but every time she turned around, there was Mister Rogers putting his arms around someone, or wiping the tears off someone's cheek, or passing around the picture of someone's child, or getting on his knees to talk to a child. As Joanne Rogers tells Lloyd Vogel in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, he was loathe to hurt even animals. It is inspired by a 1998 Esquire article about Rogers by Tom . The film is centered on a writer for Esquire, a men's magazine with an arch sensibility, who is assigned, against his will, to write a feature story on Mr. Rogers as part of an edition on American heroes. It's his natural instinct to try and take Mister . And that always struck me as perverse. I had always been a great prayer, a powerful one, but only fitfully, only out of guilt, only when fear and desperation drove me to itand it hit me, right then, with my eyes closed, that this was the moment Fred RogersMister Rogershad been leading me to from the moment he answered the door of his apartment in his bathrobe and asked me about Old Rabbit. He is losing, of course. Explaining why he wanted the changes, he wrote that it wasn't because he disliked it or disagreed with its premise. This article was originally published in the November 1998 issue. "Would you like to speak to him?" Here's what readers learned about Mister Rogers when the piece debuted. Youll probably need an infusion of something like this to restore your faith in humanity after an overload of Frank Underwood. And even now, when he is producing only three weeks' worth of new programs a year, he still winds up agonizingagonizingabout whether to announce his theme as "Little and Big" or "Big and Little" and still makes only two edits per televised minute, because he doesn't want his message to be determined by the cuts and splices in a piece of tapeto become, despite all his fierce coherence, "a message of fragmentation.". ESQ: You wrote in the original piece that he didnt even watch TV. In fact, the little boy with the big sword didn't know who Mister Rogers was, and so when Mister Rogers knelt down in front of him, the little boy with the big sword looked past him and through him, and when Mister Rogers said, "Oh, my, that's a big sword you have," the boy didn't answer, and finally his mother got embarrassed and said, "Oh, honey, c'mon, that's Mister Rogers," and felt his head for fever. His name was Fred Rogers. In the movie, Tom Junod's name is changed to Lloyd Vogel. Based on the 1998 Esquire article, "Can You SayHero?" by award-winning journalist Tom Junod, the movie illustrates how, during the process of interviewing Mr. Rogers for a "puff piece," the writer (re-named in the movie as Lloyd Vogel, and played by Matthew Rhys) undergoes a personal transformation. I'm listening to these guys when, from thirty feet away, I notice Mister Rogers looking around for someone and know, immediately, that he is looking for me. TJ: You can get into all sorts of weird head-trips about prayer and its purpose. Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads! And what did Fred want from me? Fred was all person by person. We were heading back to his apartment in a taxi when I asked him what he had said. ESQ: I mean, you said that if he grew up in the age of Twitter, you can expect what he would have done. The quintessence of the man was not his nationality but his faith. Maybe it was something he needed to hear. "Fred, they're not home. Lloyd has been tasked with profiling Fred Rogers for Esquire, an unusual assignment that he approaches with great reluctance and even resentment. Mister Rogers spots him first, naturally, amidst the swarm of New Yorkers, about the five-hundredth happy coincidence in a life full of them. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to go to seminary upon graduation. He takes a nap every day in the late afternoonjust as he wakes up every morning at five-thirty to read and study and write and pray for the legions who have requested his prayers; just as he goes to bed at nine-thirty at night and sleeps eight hours without interruption. Junod is personally present . Id like to take your picture. Lloyd has daddy issues, which Junod did not (at least not in the same way) something he outlines in a recent piece about Rogers for The Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Rogers (Tom Hanks), tells us the story of Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), who is a cynical reporter assigned to do a piece on Mr. Rogers. Tom Junod's "Can You Say . It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' ESQ: So my relationship with prayer has ebbed and flowed my entire life. Sometimes, ophthalmologists have to take care of the eyes of children, and some children get very scared, because children know that their world disappears when their eyes close, and they can be afraid that the ophthalmologists will make their eyes close forever. If we wanted to go into the house, we should have called first. "Now, Deb, I'd like to ask you a favor," he said. But then Esquire, for a special edition on "heroes," asks Lloyd to write a profile piece on Fred "Mister Rogers" Rogers. The boy had never spoken, until one day he said, "X the Owl," which is the name of one of Mister Rogers's puppets, and he had never looked his father in the eye until one day his father had said, "Let's go to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe," and now the boy is speaking and reading, and the father has come to thank Mister Rogers for saving his son's life.And by this time, well, it's nine-thirty in the morning, time for Mister Rogers to take off his jacket and his shoes and put on his sweater and his sneakers and start taping another visit to the Neighborhood. He wanted us to pray. Tick, Tick . And so when he threw Old Rabbit out the car window the next time, it was gone for good. He said, "I would like you to do something for me. You were a child once, too. But the script insists, "it's not really about Mr. Rogers." It is, the viewer discovers, about Esquire staff reporter Lloyd Vogel, played here by Welshman Matthew Rhys. And its all in there. he asked. We were heading there all along, because Mister Rogers loves graveyards, and so as we took the long, straight road out of sad, fading Latrobe, you could still feel the speed in him, the hurry, as he mustered up a sad anticipation, and when we passed through the cemetery gates, he smiled as he said to Bill Isler, "The plot's at the end of the yellow-brick road." Did you have any special friends growing up? Over 20 years after its publication, Junod, now a senior writer for ESPN, has come forward to share more about the lessons he's learned from Rogers, and how he's reconciled them with his feelings about A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Twelve years in a Catholic school. As he gets to know the children's TV show host . He had just come back from visiting Koko, the gorilla who has learnedor who has been taughtAmerican Sign Language. Fred Rogers, he of puppets, toys and perennial optimism, is seen as the best of America. He can't define it. The movie was so well done and like a lot of people, I had no idea what a loving man Fred Rogers was. He doesn't even know. Tom Hanks channels Mister Rogers in a movie about how the legendary kids' TV host saves a magazine writer, and could maybe save all of us. TJ: Thats a great question. It was the first time I had read the story in a really long time. Junod also appeared in the critically acclaimed documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? "Bunny Wunny," she says. There was an energy to him, however, a fearlessness, an unashamed insistence on intimacy, and though I tried to ask him questions about himself, he always turned the questions back on me, and when I finally got him to talk about the puppets that were the comfort of his lonely boyhood, he looked at me, his gray-blue eyes at once mild and steady, and asked, "What about you, Tom? When he was your age, he had a rabbit, too, and he loved it very much. Then, with his hand still over hers and his eyes looking straight into hers, he said, "Deb, do you know what a great prayer you are? That was a challenge. TJ: Okay, so theres that scene in the beginning of the movie where hes zipping up his sweater. he asked Bill Isler, president of Family Communications, the company that produces Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Koko was much bigger than Mister Rogers. Neighborhood," about the TV star Fred Rogers. Lloyd is married, has . He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy, had bought something new for the corner room of their big redbrick house. The film is adapted from a real life 1998 Esquire feature penned by Tom Junod, long one of the nation's premier magazine writers. I mean, to be honest with you, Ive been going and going in front of a crowd [suddenly, a lightbulb in Junods eyeview explodes in flames] Woah! Maya Lin is a famous architect. And in a lot of ways, things that couldnt happen on a person by person level could happen on media, because its mob versus invisible person. I bring up the Pam Bondi thing in the The Atlantic piecewhere they actually use Fred to hound somebody. The movie, which opens November 22, casts Rogers as an agent of change . They just sang. I mean, he was in favor of thatmedia should be human. A woman was with him, sitting in a big chair. She was a minister at Fred Rogers's church. But Junod says he recognizes Vogel's . I didn't ask him for his prayers for him; I asked for me. "But Mister Rogers, I can't pray," Joybubbles said, "because every time I try to pray, I forget the words. He was the soft son of overprotective parents, but he believed, right then, that he was strong enough to enter into battle with thatthat machine, that mediumand to wrestle with it until it yielded to him, until the ground touched by its blue shadow became hallowed and this thing called television came to be used "for the broadcasting of grace through the land." "Do you think we can go in?" '", In fact, Junod's current project is a book about his relationship to his father, Lou Junod. "Looks a bit likeOld Rabbit, doesn't it, Tom? Not his childhood, mind you, or even a childhoodno, just "childhood." I mean, I find prayer somewhat problematic. I like to take pictures of all my new friends, so that I can show them to Joanne." And then, in the dark room, there was a wallop of white light, and Mister Rogers disappeared behind it. 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 . "Oh, that's a nice name," Mister Rogers says, and then goes to the Thirty-fourth Street escalator to climb it one last time for the cameras. There's a real Tom Junod, 61, of Marietta, whose 1998 profile of Rogers became the basis for the Tom Hanks movie that had audiences weeping and cheering at a preview last week . TJ: I dont think he watched a lot of TV, but I think he was also against quick cuts. I asked him because I think that anyone who has gone through challenges like that must be very close to God. In trying to strip away Mr. Rogers . She and the boy lived together in a city in California, and although she wanted very much for her son to meet Mister Rogers, she knew that he was far too disabled to travel all the way to Pittsburgh, so she figured he would never meet his hero, until one day she learned through a special foundation designed to help children like her son that Mister Rogers was coming to California and that after he visited the gorilla named Koko, he was coming to meet her son. A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD - Official Trailer (HD), What Mr Rogers Was Leading Tom Junod to All Along, Read Tom Junod's Iconic Mr. Rogers Profile, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. "Remind you of anyone, Tom?" Heres Our Review Of Cocaine Bear: Oh Hell Yes! Oh, and I'll bet the two of you were together since he was a very young rabbit. "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" is loosely based on the 1998 Esquire profile of the beloved TV host. He can be contacted at murdockcolumn@yahoo.com. In fact, it's an honorific. Fred never stopped looking at her or let go of her hand. ", "What prayer is that, Mister Rogers? The day of the show, he called and asked if I could take the subway down to Bryant Park. ESQUIRE: In your Atlantic piece, you talk about how theres no true successor to Mister Rogers. He clearly wanted me to pray. Theres fire up there guys! I mean, one of the great surprises of my life is doing this. He did the same thing the next day, and then the nextuntil he had done the same things, those things, 865 times, at the beginning of 865 television programs, over a span of thirty-one years. Once upon a time, a little boy with a big sword went into battle against Mister Rogers. On this afternoon, the end of a hot, yellow day in New York City, he was very tired, and when I asked if I could go to his apartment and see him, he paused for a moment and said shyly, "Well, Tom, I'm in my bathrobe, if you don't mind." February 14, 2014. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. The journalist-Lloyd . I was okay with Lloyd Vogel with bunny ears. Koko watches Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and when Mister Rogers, in his sweater and sneakers, entered the place where she lives, Koko immediately folded him in her long, black arms, as though he were a child, and then "She took my shoes off, Tom," Mister Rogers said. Ive had people take issue with that. He just waited patiently, and when the boy came back, Mister Rogers talked to him, and then he made his request. The hard-hitting journalist reluctantly takes an assignment to write a profile story about the cherished TV icon for a special 1998 "Heroes" issue of Esquire . He was born with cerebral palsy. But do you think there will be one? Exclusive & Unlimited access to Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive. Is Lloyd Vogel a real person? It's based on a real-life 1998 Esquire article by Tom Junod, but almost everything in the movie is fictional, except for the wisest, kindest, most penetrating and insightful things Mr. Rogers says in the movie. His personal story is changed too. He would grow up to become a great prayer, this little boy, but only intermittently, only fitfully, praying only when fear and desperation drove him to it, and the night he threw Old Rabbit into the darkness was the night that set the pattern, the night that taught him how. David Murdock is an English instructor at Gadsden State Community College. The two remained close until Rogers's death, in early 2003. "Oh, I don't know, Fred," she said. And so the next morning, we swam together, and then he put on his boxer shorts and the dark socks, and the T-shirt, and the gray trousers, and the belt, and then the white dress shirt and the black bow tie and the gray suit jacket, and about two hours later we were pulling up to the big brick house on Weldon Street in Latrobe, and Mister Rogers was thinking about going inside. Margy couldn't stop them, and she couldn't stop him. I just met Mister Rogersthis is definitely my lucky day." Now he was stepping in front of the camera as Mister Rogers, and he wanted to do things right, and whatever he did right, he wanted to repeat. I took the phone and spoke to a womanhis wife, the mother of his two sonswhose voice was hearty and almost whooping in its forthrightness and who spoke to me as though she had known me for a long time and was making the effort to keep up the acquaintance. TJ: I think the mediums themselves sort of make us prejudiced against that. For example, much of Mister Rogers' investment in Lloyd rests upon his tumultuous relationship with his father (Chris Cooper). And so in Penn Station, where he was surrounded by men and women and children, he had this power, like a comic-book superhero who absorbs the energy of others until he bursts out of his shirt. We may earn a commission from these links. [Junod gets up, alerts others to the now-smoking lightbulb, and returns with potato chips to share.]. Nearly every morning of his life, Mister Rogers has gone swimming, and now, here he is, standing in a locker room, seventy years old and as white as the Easter Bunny, rimed with frost wherever he has hair, gnawed pink in the spots where his dry skin has gone to flaking, slightly wattled at the neck, slightly stooped at the shoulder, slightly sunken in the chest, slightly curvy at the hips, slightly pigeoned at the toes, slightly aswing at the fine bobbing nest of himself and yet when he speaks, it is in that voice, his voice, the famous one, the unmistakable one, the televised one, the voice dressed in sweater and sneakers, the soft one, the reassuring one, the curious and expository one, the sly voice that sounds adult to the ears of children and childish to the ears of adults, and what he says, in the midst of all his bobbing nudity, is as understated as it is obvious: "Well, Tom, I guess you've already gotten a deeper glimpse into my daily routine than most people have.". On this afternoon, the end of a hot, yellow day in New York City, he was very tired, and when I asked if I could go to his apartment and see him, he paused for a moment and said shyly, Well, Tom, Im in my bathrobe, if you dont mind. I told him I didnt mind, and when, five minutes later, I took the elevator to his floor, well, sure enough, there was Mister Rogers, silver-haired, standing in the golden door at the end of the hallway and wearing eyeglasses and suede moccasins with rawhide laces and a flimsy old blue-and-yellow bathrobe that revealed whatever part of his skinny white calves his dark-blue dress socks didnt hide. There was nobody home. Or do you take elements of what you see of the best men in your life, and try and put it together into one person? I dont know if Im ever going to be as good at the active devotion whereas Fred would like me or us to be. But, in that same way, do you think he could have became what he did with social media instead of TV? Hate is such a strong word to use so lightly. It was so old, in fact, that it was really an unstuffed animal; so old that even back then, with the little boy's brain still nice and fresh, he had no memory of it as "Young Rabbit," or even "Rabbit"; so old that Old Rabbit was barely a rabbit at all but rather a greasy hunk of skin without eyes and ears, with a single red stitch where its tongue used to be. And then he lifted his wrist, and looked at the audience, and looked at his watch, and said softly, "I'll watch the time," and there was, at first, a small whoop from the crowd, a giddy, strangled hiccup of laughter, as people realized that he wasn't kidding, that Mister Rogers was not some convenient eunuch but rather a man, an authority figure who actually expected them to do what he askedand so they did. . Can I take your picture, Tom? he asked. The little girl eyes me suspiciously, and then Mister Rogers. he said. He explained how his friendship with Rogers contrasted that image, writing, "Fred gave me what I needed then and still need now: a choice. "If Mister Fucking Rogers can tell me how to read that fucking clock, I'll watch his show every day for a fucking year"that's what someone in the crowd said while watching Mister Rogers and Maya Lin crane their necks at Maya Lin's big fancy clock, but it didn't even matter whether Mister Rogers could read the clock or not, because every time he looked at it, with the television cameras on him, he leaned back from his waist and opened his mouth wide with astonishment, like someone trying to catch a peanut he had tossed into the air, until it became clear that Mister Rogers could show that he was astonished all day if he had to, or even forever, because Mister Rogers lives in a state of astonishment, and the astonishment he showed when he looked at the clock was the same astonishment he showed when peopleabsolute strangerswalked up to him and fed his hungry ear with their whispers, and he turned to me, with an open, abashed mouth, and said, "Oh, Tom, if you could only hear the stories I hear!". TJ: I grew up Roman Catholic too. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (opens Nov. 22) tells the story of one writer's experience profiling Fred Rogers, otherwise known as Mister Rogers, the host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.While the film does look at the burgeoning friendship between Rogers (Tom Hanks) and writer Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), it focuses primarily on Vogel's personal life and how much it has been . They are tallas tall as the cinder-block walls they are designed to hideand they encompass the Neighborhood's entire stage set, from the flimsy yellow house where Mister Rogers comes to visit, to the closet where he finds his sweaters, to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where he goes to dream. However, he also said in the Atlantic piece that his father was a flawed man, "a fetishist of his own fragrant masculinity." "Thank you for calling, my dear," he said, in a voice whose . Mister Rogers always worries about things like that, because he always worries about children, and when his station wagon stopped in traffic next to a bus stop, he read aloud the advertisement of an airline trying to push its international service. Isn't that wonderful?". ", "Old Rabbit. It's Mister Fucking Rogers! Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue were joined onstage by Tom Junod, whose beautiful 1998 profile of Mr. Rogers for Esquire provided a main influence on the film. When Junod first read the script for the movie, he believed that the writers had made him out to be a jerk, though he had a much more colorful term for that. An honorific is what people call you when they respect you, and the moment Mister Rogers got out of the car, people wouldn't stay the fuck away from him, they respected him so much. 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