Won't You be my Neighbor? (movie 2018)

[tomwed]

Hey Joe,
What do ya know.
Just got back from the movie show.

I don't recall the last time I heard that. I know we said it when we were kids. Did anyone else?

I just got back from the Movie show about Mr. Rogers. If you have a moviepass don't pass this one up. I learned a lot. He had an episode on divorce and another on assassination after RFK was assassinated. He spent a week on death talking in a way that was direct and understood by little children. The guy you saw on the TV was the same person off camera.

Everyday he would swim a mile and then go on the scale. He weighed exactly 143 everyday.

[Abby10]

Hey Joe,
What do ya know.
Just got back from the movie show.

I don't recall the last time I heard that. I know we said it when we were kids. Did anyone else?

I just got back from the Movie show about Mr. Rogers. If you have a moviepass don't pass this one up. I learned a lot. He had an episode on divorce and another on assassination after RFK was assassinated. He spent a week on death talking in a way that was direct and understood by little children. The guy you saw on the TV was the same person off camera.

Everyday he would swim a mile and then go on the scale. He weighed exactly 143 everyday.

I have got to see this. I literally lived in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood when I was in college. I had an apartment that was on a street that ran perpendicular to where his home was. Although, I did not have the good fortune to meet him, I did have a couple of friends that knew him well and even vacationed with him and his wife. They said the same thing about him that you said above.

[Madelaine Amee]

Mr. Rogers was never missed in our home. Every day we sat down to watch Mr. Rogers. If I close my eyes I can hear the music and see him coming through the door, taking off his jacket and putting on the button through cardigan. I remember one episode where he had to have a surgical procedure and he showed how concerned he was about the surgery.

I think my kids are kind and thoughtful and very considerate of others and their daily TV watching was Capt. Kangeroo, Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street.

Their kids, my grandchildren, are also kind and thoughtful and considerate and they have been brought up on digital cartoon TV, so who knows!

[ColdNoMore]

Hey Joe,
What do ya know.
Just got back from the movie show.

I don't recall the last time I heard that. I know we said it when we were kids. Did anyone else?

I just got back from the Movie show about Mr. Rogers. If you have a moviepass don't pass this one up. I learned a lot. He had an episode on divorce and another on assassination after RFK was assassinated. He spent a week on death talking in a way that was direct and understood by little children. The guy you saw on the TV was the same person off camera.

Everyday he would swim a mile and then go on the scale. He weighed exactly 143 everyday.

If Mr. Rogers was a required subject in every grade through 6th...it would eventually make America a much better place. :thumbup:

[My Daily Run]

Mr. Rogers babysat my son everyday...he was one of a kind...I plan on seeing this documentary...I know he lived in Winter Park for many years...

[My Post]

One of the few human beings no one has a bad word for. Was he in WW2?

[jnieman]

We wanted to go see this with the grandkids this past weekend but realized it is PG 13. Very disappointed.

[manaboutown]

Fred Rogers - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers)

[tomwed]

When I was a teenager I was with my friends and we were all gabbing about the dumb things we did as little kids. My best friend said he was pretending to be superman and he jumped off the couch and crashed on the floor. Apparently that happened more then you think and Mr. Rogers, using puppets, showed what would happen if you jump out a window.

Mister Rogers' 50th Anniversary DVD Collection | POPSUGAR News (https://www.popsugar.com/news/Mister-Rogers-50th-Anniversary-DVD-Collection-44620638)
This might make a great present if you have little ones in the family.

[John_W]

Tom Hanks is scheduled to play Mr. Rogers in a bio-pic called 'You are my Friend' due out October 2019. I never got a chance to see Mr. Rogers, he was after my time. When I was a kid it was Capt. Kangaroo on weekdays and Howdy Doody on Saturday morning. I remember when Howdy Doody went off the air, I was 12 and it was a sad day.

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[tomwed]

I had a crush on Lady Aberlin. I was 35 at the time. No one caught on.

[fw102807]

I submitted a drawing to a contest on the Rex Trailer show and won a stamp collection. That was before Mr Rogers and I don't know why I posted this.

[Taltarzac725]

Tom Hanks is scheduled to play Mr. Rogers in a bio-pic called 'You are my Friend' due out October 2019. I never got a chance to see Mr. Rogers, he was after my time. When I was a kid it was Capt. Kangaroo on weekdays and Howdy Doody on Saturday morning. I remember when Howdy Doody went off the air, I was 12 and it was a sad day.

https://www.chatelaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/INLINE_MrRogers.jpg

Fred Rogers - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers)

Me too his show would have been too "young" for me. On that upcoming movie I love almost anything with Tom Hanks in it.

[Villageswimmer]

I had a crush on Lady Aberlin. I was 35 at the time. No one caught on.


My son had a crush on Lady Elaine Fairchild. Daniel Striped Tiger was my guy! Kinder, gentler times for sure.

[bilcon]

Where have all the role models gone. Sad. My kids were mesmerized by him. Today's media would probably find something wrong with him anyway.

[Love2Swim]

If Mr. Rogers was a required subject in every grade through 6th...it would eventually make America a much better place. :thumbup:

Agree. Our country needs the morality and conscience that Mr. Rogers was emblematic of.

[CFrance]

I submitted a drawing to a contest on the Rex Trailer show and won a stamp collection. That was before Mr Rogers and I don't know why I posted this.
Because this stuff just brings back good memories!

[CFrance]

When Mr Rogers died in 2003, our two sons were 25 & 30. (We're all Pittsburgh natives, where Fred Rogers lived.) They both called me, from Michigan and Maine, devastated at the loss of their childhood icon.

[fw102807]

Because this stuff just brings back good memories!

Thanks, I think you're right. It did bring back fond memories of when shows were nice.

[Schaumburger]

Agree. Our country needs the morality and conscience that Mr. Rogers was emblematic of.

Really liked the documentary. Although I was just a little on the old side to be watching "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" when it debuted in the late 1960's, I still enjoyed watching it. If more people had the compassion, humanity and decency of Fred Rogers, this world would be a better place.

[dotti105]

Fred Rogers’ Mom lived in Clearwater and he visited her often. We would see him and his Mom at the Carlouel Yacht Club on Clearwater Beach. All the kids always did a double take when they saw him. You can imagine! He was always very cordial and friendly and didn’t mind being recognized. I think his Mom was quite proud of him and didn’t mind the inturreptions.
He was also an ordained minister.

[My Daily Run]

Where have all the role models gone. Sad. My kids were mesmerized by him. Today's media would probably find something wrong with him anyway.

I saw the documentary and it was wonderful...my son sat so quietly when he watched Mr. Rogers. According to the documentary they did find many things wrong with Mr. Rogers one being that when he said "I like you as you are" people protested that by his words, children wouldn't grow to be anything more than they were because he "liked them as they were" REALLY...the world was crazy then too.

[tomwed]

He understood little kid fears. Remember the little song that went "you can never go down, you can never go down, the drain." I remember listening to a counselor or psychiatrist on NPR talking about a 4 year old who was afraid to fly. He said he would disappear. Eventually the doctor got to the bottom of it. I don't remember if they went to an airport. But the boy pointed out that if you watch a plane fly away eventually it disappears.

[tomwed]

watch this----it's from 1996 and includes Mr. Rogers and Bill Cosby. Everyone was aware that kids watch too much tv but there wasn't enough worth while children's tv. Who has time to think about that now?
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[Taltarzac725]

watch this----it's from 1996 and includes Mr. Rogers and Bill Cosby. Everyone was aware that kids watch too much tv but there wasn't enough worth while children's tv. Who has time to think about that now?
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That is quite a long clip. :read:

[tomwed]

That is quite a long clip. :read:It is---but check out Hillary. Listen to Gore talk about science. Fred Rogers gives the best, most moving speech. His values shine through. At the time Cosby was Dr. Cosby who could not be held in higher regard.

[graciegirl]

Saw this wonderful film today with friends I dearly love and used several hankies.

I felt I had been on a retreat and won the lottery. If only more people could live their lives like Fred Rogers.

[manaboutown]

It is---but check out Hillary. Listen to Gore talk about science. Fred Rogers gives the best, most moving speech. His values shine through. At the time Cosby was Dr. Cosby who could not be held in higher regard.

Al Gore is anything but a scientist!

Bill Cosby is a serial rapist who drugged his victims.

[graciegirl]

He really saw that children's feelings were just as deep as adults and really talked to them about death and being frightened, and about being sad and mad and worried. He was very tuned in to small children and he spoke simply and he listened. He did the same for adults and was not understood very well sometimes. He was really smart and very kind and just one of a kind.

He was someone very special.