It all happened in an instant. I emailed Jesse Thorn about "Mister Rogers & Me" at 4:39 pm New Year's Day, mere seconds after a rogue synapse reminded me that Jesse -- whose Public Radio International show, "The Sound Of Young America" (now, "Bullseye With Jesse Thorn") I'd been listening to for years -- absolutely loved Mister Rogers. "That sounds very cool," he wrote back just three ...

From The Huffington Post to IndieWire and LA Weekly, the reviews are in for the new documentary, "Mister Rogers & Me" available now from PBS DVD and iTunes. Filmmaker Benjamin Wagner first met "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" creator and star, Fred Rogers, at the television icon's summer home on Nantucket, Massachusetts. His mother rented the cottage next door, so Mister Rogers really was his ...

If Christofer and I learned one thing during the making of "Mister Rogers & Me," it was that nearly everyone has a Mister Rogers story. From the porter at Richmond International Airport who told us how Mister Rogers' voice was the only tranquil thing in his turbulent, childhood home, to the Chicago Reader reporter who met Mister Rogers crossing a bridge, to the Washington Post reporter who's ...