During the 1997 Daytime Emmys, the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Rogers. The following is an excerpt from Esquire Magazine's coverage of the gala, written by Tom Junod:

Mister Rogers went onstage to accept the award - and there, in front of all the soap opera stars and talk show sinceratrons, in front of all the jutting man-tanned ( Read more... )

A House of My Own ( Read more... )

But, nothing can save you. Not your friends, not the best Fred Astaire musical you've ever seen--the grace of it, not your mother's beauty, not a line from a letter you find at the bottom of a drawer, not a magazine or the next day. Nothing can save you. And you stand in the moonlight and a sweetness comes off the top of the trees, and the fence ( Read more... )