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[rivka]

Real Live Preacher's tribute to Mr. Rogers led me to this story:

Last May the Daytime Emmy Awards honored Rogers for lifetime achievement. His acceptance speech, as he recalls it, followed a dreary sequence of insults and off-color jokes by other awards ceremony participants. In contrast Rogers asked his audience to take 10 seconds to think of "people who helped you become who you are today." The roomful of TV stars and producers sat in silence for 10 seconds, some of them with tears streaming down their faces. Looking back on the incident, Rogers observes, "I think we don't realize how hungry people are for what is honest and real."

I was never attached to Mr. Rogers the way many people here seem to have been. But I admire the work he did.

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

Mr. Rogers came along well after I was already "too old" for such fare; Captain Kangaroo, Howdy Doody and Kookla, Fran & Ollie were my own childhood TV companions.

But as a grownup, I came to respect and admire his gentle, reassuring voice in a world where not enough kids - or grownups - experience that kind of gentle reassurance.

(BTW, Rivka, I've been meaning to thank you for cluing me to Real Live Preacher - he's terrific.)