How Educational Kid Shows Are Mobilizing To Rescue Overburdened Parents
The first thing Angela C. Santomero thought when she got wind of the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in March was how to protect her staff. The chief creative officer of 9…
François Clemmons Knows How To Look For The Helpers
This article is part of a series called “How to Human,” interviews with memoirists that explore how we tackle life’s alarms, marvels and bombshells. Mister Rogers was famous for telling…
Tom Hanks Received An Ominous Warning Filming The Mister Rogers Movie
Hanks, who plays the late TV icon Fred Rogers in the movie, recollected a strange exchange he had with a man in a Pittsburgh hotel elevator on Monday’s episode of…
The Director Who Used Mister Rogers’ Kindness To Examine ‘Male Anger’
Over the past two years, an unlikely superstar has re-entered the zeitgeist in a major way: Fred Rogers. The gentle television host died in 2003, leaving behind more than three…
Tom Hanks Says Mister Rogers Helps Him Fight With Rita Wilson
Even Oscar-winning grown-ups can learn something from the gentle legacy of Fred Rogers from “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Tom Hanks, who plays Rogers in the new movie “A Beautiful Day in…
‘A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood’ Trailer: Tom Hanks Sings, You Will Cry
Tom Hanks is moving in as your favorite cardigan-clad neighbor in the first trailer for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” The actor has some big loafers to fill starring…
Google’s Touching Mister Rogers Tribute Doodle Will Hit You Right In The Feels
It’s a beautiful day on Google’s homepage. The search engine’s doodle on Friday paid homage to “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the iconic PBS show starring Fred Rogers that helped to raise…
This Modern-Day Mister Rogers Is Making Children’s TV Good Again
In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel Striped Tiger is the old man on the block. He emerged, Venus-like, from a clock drawn on the wall in 1954 to become the…
Mister Rogers Is Back, When We Need Him Most
“The greatest thing that we can do is to help someone know that they’re loved and capable of loving.” Those words belong to Fred Rogers, the cardigan-clad television host whose…
The Gay ‘Ghetto Boy’ Who Bonded With Mister Rogers And Changed The Neighborhood
When François Clemmons first met minister-turned-childhood-educator Fred Rogers at a Good Friday service in the 1960s, he had no clue what was in store for him. He caught the attention…