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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Secular Sanity - Mar 22, 2018
RE: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Zinjanthropos - Mar 23, 2018
Never watched an entire show. My kids took to Sesame Street, not Mr Rogers. Guy had a great voice for communicating with kids IMHO. I won't be going to the theatre for this one but I hope it does well.
RE: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Syne - Mar 23, 2018
Tom Hanks will apparently be playing him in a non-biopic movie. http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/19/tom-hanks-mr-rogers-movie-you-are-my-friend-plot-details/
RE: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Secular Sanity - Mar 23, 2018
My algebra teacher, who was also my neighbor was cross between Fred Rogers and Julius Sumner Miller. He was so nice. He busted me cutting class once and said that he’d forget about if I brought him one of those cheap fruit pies. It was the last class of the day. We always complained about how boring it was. He made us deal. He would post a problem on the board, and if we could solve it, we could leave. I learned more from him than all of my other teachers combined.
RE: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - C C - Mar 23, 2018
(Mar 23, 2018 03:31 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: Never watched an entire show. My kids took to Sesame Street, not Mr Rogers. Guy had a great voice for communicating with kids IMHO. I won't be going to the theatre for this one but I hope it does well.
#1 thing may be that he was a children's show host without scandal, who successfully avoided delivering a farm-wagon load of disillusionment to his viewers both when they were young and older in life.
https://www.history.com/news/urban-legends-mr-rogers
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RE: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Zinjanthropos - Mar 24, 2018
Quote:delivering a farm-wagon load of disillusionment to his viewers
Is this in reference to puppets and the fantasy nature of some children shows. The Neighbourhood of Make Believe comes to mind but because it is labelled as such, then it is OK? Don't parents deliver the same fantasy loads via Easter Bunnies, Santa Claus etc?