Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Fred Rogers was all about love and gentleness on his TV show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. But Rogers could get angry, and the thing that made him the angriest was adults who would mislead young children. This is why Rogers hated the concept of superheroes. The subject came up as he and David Newell (Mr.
McFeely) were traveling in the late ’70s.In a taxi to the speaking engagement, Rogers was lost in thought about his upcoming speech. Newell recalls: “In the newspaper, I came across this little blurb that a child had jumped off a roof with a towel — the Superman thing.”
Newell interrupted Rogers’s reverie…
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