He fiercely advocated for public broadcasting. Jazz pianist Johnny Costa, who was the Neighborhood's musical director from 1968 until his death in 1996, performed every song live in the studio during tapings. Often television gives such constant distraction-noise and fast-paced things-which doesn't allow us to take time to explore the deeper levels of who we are, and who we can become." 19. “If we take time," Rogers said, "we can often go much deeper as far as a spiritual life is concerned than we can if there's constant distraction. His trademark sneakers were born when he found them to be quieter than his dress shoes as he moved about the set. He wore sneakers because they were quieter. And if there's anything that bothers me, it's one person demeaning another." 17. "I got into television because I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces," he said. Fred Rogers was named after his grandfather.
Years later, I can confirm and expand on those three things (he was an inordinately nice guy in person, too), plus these 46 things I learned about this great man and his essential pioneering work. On March 20, 2012, PBS released it on DVD.
The film explores Rogers’s luminous legacy through remembrances from Tim Russert, Susan Stamberg, Linda Ellerbee, Marc Brown, and many more. Ten years later, my brother and I premiered our documentary, Mister Rogers & Me, at the Nantucket Film Festival. And when I told him so the following summer, he replied, "Spread the message, Benjamin." "I feel so strongly," he said, "that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex." He mentioned his friend, mystic, author and poet Bo Lozoff, and his book, Deep & Simple. He gingerly asked about my parents' divorce (taking a cue, apparently, from a song I'd just played him on my acoustic guitar about my childhood fear of flying), then my job at MTV. We met on the weekend of my 30th birthday in September 2001. I was a young MTV News producer and sometime singer/songwriter. My mother rented a tiny cottage next door. Mister Rogers summered in a modest, gray, shake-shingled house on the edge of Nantucket. I only knew three things about Mister Rogers before meeting him: He was the host of one of my favorite childhood shows, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was from Pittsburgh, and he seemed like a really nice guy.
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