After a while, Margy just rolled her eyes and gave up, because it's always like this with Mister Rogers, because the thing that people don't understand about him is that he's greedy for thisgreedy for the grace that people offer him. You were a child once, too. 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. They're all in heaven.". While Junod wrote that he learned the concepts of forgiveness and . 2:27. He got out of the car, and, moving as quickly as he had moved to the door of his house, he stepped up a small hill to the door of a large gray mausoleum, a huge structure built for six, with a slightly peaked roof, and bronze doors, and angels living in the stained glass. 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. If this brutal, extended winter has you feeling down and cranky I suggest you give it a read. And he had a relationship with a lot of people." It's just a meeting of friends," he said. Bill had driven us there, and now, sitting behind the wheel of his red Grand Cherokee, he was full of remonstrance. Koko watches television. Once upon a time, a little boy with a big sword went into battle against Mister Rogers. Though of all races, the schoolchildren were mostly black and Latino, and they didn't even approach Mister Rogers and ask him for his autograph. The movie is based on a true story, and is about the unexpected friendship between Mr. Rogers and a journalist who was assigned to profile Mr. Rogers for an Esquire article. One hundred and forty-three. I was okay with Lloyd Vogel with bunny ears. It depicts Lloyd Vogel (Rhys), a troubled journalist for Esquire who is assigned to profile television icon Fred Rogers (Hanks). It wasnt like Fred was just a kind man who worked at the local food bank. And my essay from 1998 is the intro for that. I didn't ask him for his prayers for him; I asked for me. It was not his fault. However, he also said in the Atlantic piece that his father was a flawed man, "a fetishist of his own fragrant masculinity." 0:00. Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) is an award-winning writer for Esquire who is nonplussed and annoyed when his editor assigns him to write a profile on Fred Rogers , pastor and star of the hit children's series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Hmmm. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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TJ: Okay, so theres that scene in the beginning of the movie where hes zipping up his sweater. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a . Twenty minutes later, I got off the train, chose the closest of the stations 14 exits to start my Junod scavenger hunt from, reached the top of the stairs, turned to cross the street, and, wow, okayover on the other end, red turtleneck, black suit, there he is. 'Most people think of us as a great domestic airline. By the time Junod was done writing the story, he had become friends with Rogers.The two remained close until Rogers's death, in early 2003. The film's protagonist is journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a cynic who is assigned by his editors at Esquire to write a profile on Rogers. I said sure, hung up, and realized I didnt exactly catch where in Bryant Parkanother New York capital of constant, nightmarish pedestrian overflow. 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 doctors were ophthalmologists. And here, as he made his way through thickets of bewildered workmenthis skinny old man dressed in a gray suit and a bow tie, with his hands on his hips and his arms akimbo, like a dance instructorthere was some kind of wiggly jazz in his legs, and he went flying all around the outside of the house, pointing at windows, saying there was the room where he learned to play the piano, and there was the room where he saw the pie fight on a primitive television, and there was the room where his beloved father dieduntil finally we reached the front door. As Joanne Rogers tells Lloyd Vogel in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, he was loathe to hurt even animals. This article was the basis for the plot of the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933. Tom Hanks-starring Mister Rogers movie 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' is loosely based off of the 'Esquire' profile Tom Junod, known as Lloyd Vogel in the film, wrote about Fred Rogers, and . The journalist-Lloyd . Koko was much bigger than Mister Rogers. It's this faithfulness to the essence of Junod's story that makes A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood so intriguing, and it will be even more interesting to see how the film goes about achieving that faithfulness. He doesn't even know. ESQ: And then by Mister Rogers. But A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is just not that movie.This isn't "The Mister Rogers Story," or a biopic like the surreal Elton John biography Rocketman or the rise-of-Dick-Cheney story Vice. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to go to seminary upon graduation. Plot. I mean, Fred wasnt just a reformer when it comes in terms of message. Tom Junod's "Can You Say . The boy had always been the object of prayer, and now he was being asked to pray for Mister Rogers, and although at first he didn't know if he could do it, he said he would, he said he'd try, and ever since then he keeps Mister Rogers in his prayers and doesn't talk about wanting to die anymore, because he figures Mister Rogers is close to God, and if Mister Rogers likes him, that must mean God likes him, too. Read it all when you have time, especially if youre binging on House of Cards this weekend. He is losing, of course. In fact, when Mister Rogers first told me the story, I complimented him on being so smartfor knowing that asking the boy for his prayers would make the boy feel better about himselfand Mister Rogers responded by looking at me at first with puzzlement and then with surprise. TJ: I dont know. They just sang. I sat in an old armchair and looked around. It's Lloyd Vogel, a fictionalized character based on Atlanta writer Tom Junod. He was born with cerebral palsy. Do you see masculinity as different endslike you could be this person or this person? When he was your age, he had a rabbit, too, and he loved it very much. This is a man who loves the simplifying force of definitions, and yet all he knows of grace is how he gets it; all he knows is that he gets it from God, through man. The boy had always been prayed for. Yeah. Once upon a time, there was a little boy born blind, and so, defenseless in the world, he suffered the abuses of the defenseless, and when he grew up and became a man, he looked back and realized that he'd had no childhood at all, and that if he were ever to have a childhood, he would have to start having it now, in his forties. he says when I approach the two of them. 'I love you.'. He was wearing beige pants, a blue dress shirt, a tie, dark socks, a pair of dark-blue boating sneakers, and a purple, zippered cardigan. His editor at Esquire asked him to profile Fred Rogers, the beloved television personality and Presbyterian minister. Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit. Photo: Courtesy of Sony Pictures. Except that Mister Rogers wasn't going anywhere. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. Did you have a special friend like that, Tom? 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 . I mean, one of the great surprises of my life is doing this. Who Is John Dutton's Grandfather in '1923'? Well, not exactly. We swung up to the fashion show venue, where I watched Junod practice his strut to untz-untz-untz beats and avoid a janky step at the start of the runway. But it might mean something to me, so thats why Ive been doing it. In your eyes, whats the reason for the lack of action? . 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. He woke up in the morning and prayed, and wrote, and prayed for people. The movie is loosely based on Tom Junod's life around 1998 when he wrote an article on Mr. Rogers for Esquire magazine. He explained how his friendship with Rogers contrasted that image, writing, "Fred gave me what I needed then and still need now: a choice. However, on insistence to keep an open mind, he came to realize that the . Yes, sure, he was taping, and right there, in Penn Station in New York City, were rings of other children wiggling in wait for him, but right now his patient gray eyes were fixed on the little boy with the big sword, and so he stayed there, on one knee, until the little boy's eyes finally focused on Mister Rogers, and he said, "It's not a sword; it's a death ray." One hundred and forty-three. It's more about the impact of Mister Rogers on others, particularly a jaded and cynical journalist named Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) and how his interactions with the TV host chill his sometimes . I bring up the Pam Bondi thing in the The Atlantic piecewhere they actually use Fred to hound somebody. Directed by 40-year old director Marielle Heller, the movie stars Tom Hanks, already known for his kindness, as Fred Rogers, and Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel. ESQ: And the tent scene [where Mister Rogers struggles to put together a camping tent for a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood segment], was kind of. Three of the doors are opened to reveal the familiar faces of Lady Aberlin, King Friday, and Mr. McFeely.The fourth door is opened to reveal the face of Mr. Rogers' troubled new friend, Lloyd Vogel, who has a cut near his nose. T he movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is structured like an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. 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! He knowing what only Fred could do. 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. But do you think there will be one? "Looks a bit likeOld Rabbit, doesn't it, Tom? This article was originally published in the November 1998 issue. He was so nervous, in fact, that when Mister Rogers did visit, he got mad at himself and began hating himself and hitting himself, and his mother had to take him to another room and talk to him. He wanted to tell children that what starts out little can sometimes become big, and so that could devote themselves to little dreams without feeling bad about them. His name was Fred Rogers. By the time Junod was done writing the story, he had become friends with Rogers. I asked him because I wanted his intercession.". By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. He was thunderstruck. His name was Old Rabbit., Old Rabbit. As of November 2019, he is a writer . Yes, at seventy years old and 143 pounds, Mister Rogers still fights, and indeed, early this year, when television handed him its highest honor, he responded by telling televisiongently, of courseto just shut up for once, and television listened. "Will you be with me when I die?" He allowed me to choose between two visions of manhood, a choice I suspect Ill have to continue making for the rest of my life, which is why Im writing my book and which is why I asked the producers of the movie to change the names.". ESQUIRE: In your Atlantic piece, you talk about how theres no true successor to Mister Rogers. This was not a bad thing, however, because he was in New York, and in New York it's not an insult to be called Mister Fucking Anything. TJ: I grew up Roman Catholic too. The old navy-blue sport jacket comes off first, then the dress shoes, except that now there is not the famous sweater or the famous sneakers to replace them, and so after the shoes he's on to the dark socks, peeling them off and showing the blanched skin of his narrow feet. He was a music major at a small school in Florida and planning to go to seminary upon graduation. The first time I met Mister Rogers, he told me a story of how deeply his simple gestures had been felt, and received. Fred Rogers, he of puppets, toys and perennial optimism, is seen as the best of America. She had a long face and a dark blush to her skin. I took it and then put my hand around her free hand. "I imagine they're blue.". ESQ: Have the past two months been fulfilling for you? 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." I just wanted to let him know that he was strong on the inside, too. She spent much of her time tending to the sick and the dying. Fred was all person by person. and Fred, he's a hundred yards away, in his sneakers and his purple sweater, and the only thing anyone sees of him is his gray head bobbing up and down amid all the other heads, the hundreds of them, the thousands, the millions, disappearing into the city and its swelter. He was leading me to that moment of prayer that whole time that I was with him. New Friends.". "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. What is yours named?". 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.". Everything we can't stop loving . This content is imported from youTube. 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. The boy was thunderstruck because nobody had ever asked him for something like that, ever. Lloyd's father Jerry (Chris Cooper) abandoned him as a child and keeps trying to reconnect, by Lloyd rejects him. 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. What is grace? 'I love you.' ", "What prayer is that, Mister Rogers? Im not gonna be describing anything but my social media experience, but I think that the social media experienceand I dont want to blame everything on social media, eitherbut I do think that social media tricks you into thinking that being unkind can be in itself, moral. Would you do something for me?" The premise of the moviebased on a profile of Rogers that the journalist Tom Junod wrote in 1998, for Esquireis that an investigative reporter named Lloyd Vogel (played by Matthew Rhys), who . ESQ: I wanted to ask you about that nightmare scene [where Lloyd Vogel, the character loosely based on Junod, dreams that he's a character in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe]. TJ: I mean, the tents great, but the tents intentional. Junod asked the filmmakers to stark his trail name lower the names of urgent family members, which exactly how page became Lloyd Vogel in your movie. As for Mister Rogers himselfwell, he doesn't look at the story in the same way that the boy did or that I did. Fred Rogers isn't even the central figure. Mister Rogers still has a ways to go.". He didn't have an umbrella, and he couldn't find a taxi, either, so he ducked with a friend into the subway and got on one of the trains. . During his early conversations with Mr. Rogers, Lloyd is visibly disconcerted, even disturbed . The first time I called Mister Rogers on the telephone, I woke him up from his nap. Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. "Oh, heavens no, Tom! The little boy didn't know why he loved Old Rabbit; he just did, and the night he threw it out the car window was the night he learned how to pray. The blue walls are the ends of the daylit universe he has made, and yet Mister Rogers can't see themor at least can't know thembecause he was born blind to color. He moved his hand from her wrist to her palm and extended his other hand to me. "It's not a performance. But in answer to your question, I mean there are all sorts of ways to be helpful and be of service. TJ: Yeah, yeah. I mean, if that was Tom Junod with bunny ears, I dont know how I would have responded. It is Vogeland, by extension, uswho grows as a result. "Thank you for calling, my dear," he said, in a voice whose . 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. It's his natural instinct to try and take Mister . Explaining why he wanted the changes, he wrote that it wasn't because he disliked it or disagreed with its premise. He wears an undershirt, of course, but no mattersoon that's gone, too, as is the belt, as are the beige trousers, until his undershorts stand as the last impediment to his nakedness. I mean, I find prayer somewhat problematic. Lloyd Vogel Is Based On A Real Journalist Who Praises The Mr. Rogers Biopic. 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. LloydRead More 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. 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 . 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.". 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. TJ: I mean, I never had that nightmare, but very interesting. That bad people dont deserve kindness, and that you, when you you literally call them a piece of shit on Twitter, that you are somehow striking a moral blow, that you are somehow being part of the resistance. 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. It gradually dawns on Tom/Lloyd, that the Mr. Rogers in front of the camera is the . Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. She was 92. But that is rather missing the point. No, not that he weighed 143 pounds, but that he weighs 143 pounds. Advertisement His editor at Esquire asked him to profile Fred Rogers, the beloved television personality and Presbyterian minister. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are.Ten seconds of silence." Her name was Deb. She weighed 280 pounds, and Mister Rogers weighed 143. 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.'. Tom Junod / Lloyd Vogel experiences this first hand as he tries to get Mr. Rogers to come "out of character". 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. Would you like to speak to him? he asked, and then handed me the phone. I asked him because I think that anyone who has gone through challenges like that must be very close to God. Does it mean anything? 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. Junod also appeared in the critically acclaimed documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? Its like if you dont do it, maybe it wont happen. 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And, its definitely one of the reasons that changing the name to Lloyd Vogel worked, because I think that things sort of drift towards magical realism at that time. Explore the full November 1998 issue of Esquire. ", "I know that," Mister Rogers said, "and that's why the prayer I'm going to teach you has only three words. Fred" But Mister Rogers was out of the car, with his camera in his hand and his legs moving so fast that the material of his gray suit pants furled and unfurled around both of his skinny legs, like flags exploding in a breeze. The news was confirmed by Fred Rogers Productions . 85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors. Isn't that wonderful?". But I mean, Fred and my dad could not have been more different. Did you have a special friend like that, Tom?, Did your special friend have a name, Tom?, Yes, Mister Rogers. And then my editor, Denise Wills said, Could you try to think of an answer to that question? And I thought about it, then I had to read the story again for the audiobook of this collection of Freds writings and sayings. It was a television. November 22, 2019 10:24 AM EST. Once upon a time, Mister Rogers went to New York City and got caught in the rain. "Welcome, Tom," he said with a slight bow, and bade me follow him inside, where he lay downno, stretched out, as though he had known me all his lifeon a couch upholstered with gold velveteen. Would you like to tell me about Old Rabbit, Tom?. and turned the clattering train into a single soft, runaway choir. His grandfather, his grandmother, his uncles, his aunts, his father-in-law and mother-in-law, even his family's servantshe went to each grave, and spoke their names, and told their stories, until finally I headed back down to the Jeep and turned back around to see Mister Rogers standing high on a green dell, smiling among the stones. But how could Mister Rogers show little becoming big, and vice versa? There was nobody home. ", "Yes, Mister Rogers. Per his piece in The Atlantic, Junod asked the writers for some changes after reading an early draft of the script in April 2016. he said. If . A distraction itself was dangerous. And so, every day, Mister Rogers refuses to do anything that would make his weight changehe neither drinks, nor smokes, nor eats flesh of any kind, nor goes to bed late at night, nor sleeps late in the morning, nor even watches televisionand every morning, when he swims, he steps on a scale in his bathing suit and his bathing cap and his goggles, and the scale tells him that he weighs 143 pounds. "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" is loosely based on the 1998 Esquire profile of the beloved TV host. The film deals with Vogel, who is plagued by his own hate of his dying father, being assigned to write a short, 400-word profile on Rogers. 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