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Joanne Rogers, the widow of Fred Rogers and an accomplished concert pianist, has died. Rogers, who nurtured the memory and legacy of the gentle TV host who entertained and educated generations of preschoolers on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” after his 2003 death, died Thursday, according to the Fred Rogers Center. Movies How befriending Mister Rogers’ widow allowed me to learn the …

#143Day: Fred Rogers and a day of kindness in Pennsylvania

Mister Rogers would have liked it: a day to be extra kind to your neighbors. “Acts of kindness should be happening always, but this is a way where there is encouragement to track it, to share it,” said Gisele Fetterman, wife of Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, John Fetterman. Growing up, the couple said they were inspired by “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and …

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood movie review: Tom Hanks' Mister Rogers film offers compassion as antidote to cynicism

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a film we need more than ever to remind us goodness and kindness still exists in our world. Offering a more positive role model and an antidote to the cruelty, cynicism, chaos of Joker is Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a film we need more than ever to remind us …

The writers saw Fred Rogers as an ‘emotional archeologist.’ They unearthed ‘A Beautiful Day’

LOADING ERROR LOADING 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 the Neighborhood,” said the late children’s TV host taught him how to fight more effectively with his wife, Rita Wilson. In a calm tone reminiscent of Rogers, …

What Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys learned from Mister Rogers for ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’

“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is based on the story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers, played by Tom Hanks, right and journalist Tom Junod, played by Matthew Rhys. The actors, who costar in the Mister Rogers movie “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” are shouting over each other like two kids squabbling for first rights to a …

Marielle Heller’s Mister Rogers film ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ asks you to check your cynicism at the door

“I didn’t want it to be a biopic,” director Marielle Heller says of her film “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” in which Fred Rogers is a character. When her son turned 2, the first television program she and her husband allowed him to watch was “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.” The animated kids series, which launched in 2012, is produced by …