Is HF hip to this trailer/movie? I haven't seen it but damn....this man exemplifies exactly what we need more of. Thoughts?
I just watched the trailer for the first time. I thought it was good. Towards the very end though I wondered......
We all grew up watching Fred Rogers but for pure entertainment value it’s Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood' with Eddie Murphy
One of my brothers worked for Fred for awhile. He worked on modeling and keeping the trolley running but he quite for some reason which he later admitted was stupid. All I can remember is that he said that "Lady Aberlin" smoked cigarettes like a fiend.
I never really watched Mr. Roger's Neighborhood as it didn't start until 1968. We watched his puppets on The Children's Corner which was live, unscripted, and hosted by Josie Carey and ran from 1955 till 1961, I think. Rogers never made an appearance on the show, he just worked the puppets, played music, etc. If you like Rogers, watch this short video on the origin of Daniel Tiger.
What appeared as an odd exception to the rules of today's western society, was a way of life in the past and still is in rural areas and some other countries today. People were themselves and far more accepted, rather than being outcast and becoming loners. Jane's parents did not have a lock on their front door and it was not uncommon to find one of the towns looser's asleep on the settee in the morning. Rather than call the police and create a big incident, her mother just gave him a cup of tea with a slice of toast and sent him on his way. Although life like this sounds crazy to most people, their was none of the violence, rape and child abduction that blights us today. Young lads got into a few fights, but their were no stabbings. The town had never had a murder in living memory among its population of around 2000. I think that when people are accepted for who they are in society, they live a happy life and I often wonder whether loneliness and sitting for hours with their only contact with children being on the internet is what ultimately leads to an unhealthy and sexual attraction towards them. In a nutshell. Society is what we make it and I don't think that we are doing a very good job of it at the moment.
Mr. Rogers was a special person. His testimy to Congress in defense of public funding for public broadcasting always gives me goosebumps. Get 'em, Mr. Rogers.
Life around Western Pennsylvania is much like Mr Rogers. We go out our way for the neighbors even when they are total twatwaffels. And we dont forget our sweaters..
grew up with that guy. the trolley was probably the only thing i actually remember from the live shows. but that was mostly the kind of world i grew up in.
looking at this picture, i'm like, was he ever really that young? guess he must have been, but i don't remember seeing the show when he was. i love that little hand puppet thing too, but i'm pretty sure the trolley, and the idea of a neighborhood having a trolley, was why i watched it. i don't know anything about what anyone i've never personally met might have been like to work for, but that does sound like a better job then any i've ever had. (i only ever lived in the l.a. area for six months when i was 3 years old)
him and bob ross, are what america lost when raygun won, and what clinton and obama fought to bring back. i don't say that to make it be about politics. it isn't so much as its about culture. a culture of not hating consideration. an idea many people rightfully still cling to, but which somehow, keeps being pushed aside, in the pursuit of some, for an imaginary and illusory fulfillment. its also, the pretty darn good world, of buttermilk biscuits. its about living in a space of not having to worry, instead of the great sparklie, that we're told to want, even if chasing after it, puts us at almost unimaginable risk. you know, its the calmness of contrast to that.
