A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Tom Hanks, as Fred Rogers It was the trolley. It had to be the trolley. I loved trains. My first attempt to draw something, when I was not quite 4 years old, was an attempt to draw a train near an overhead bridge in my hometown. When we'd go to my grandparents' house in Connecticut, my grandfather would take me to the giant train station in Stamford just so we could watch the trains come and go. During holiday season, we'd go to the FAO Schwarz store at the Short Hills Mall, and I'd watch the model trains go through impossibly large displays. So, when the new TV show came on, the one with a trolley going to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, I was hooked. "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" was my show. I watched, alone, on the 19-inch black and white Zenith in our den room, and watched for that trolley. Sometimes I'd call him "Mr. Ogers," because the graphic used the same 'r' for the end of "Mister" and the beginning of &q