First of all, Tom Hanks started giving me the creeps a while back, when he played Walt Disney in "Saving Mr. Banks." I started looking at his old work, and his first big break was a TV show where he was in drag most of the time. In Big, he played a preteen in an adult body that had sex with a grown woman. Then there was this:
It went over the top when he played Fred Rogers. It's sacrilege to say on the internet, but Fred Rogers alway creeped me out a little, too. Probably because I was way past kid stuff when he became popular, but there you go.
Anyway, this publicity photo always looked like it should say "Free Candy" on the side of the trailer.
So, I looked at the movie trailer for "A Beautiful Day" and at 00:39 this image came on the screen:
It's supposed to be the studio where Rogers filmed his show, and it may just be a coincidence that there's a large Q over the station call letters. The station is WQED, and a lot of stations have a logo that emphasizes the second letter.
Here's the trailer:
I believe Hanks starred in a movie called The Man with one Red Shoe. Could that be of any significance?
My parents didn’t like Mr. Rogers. I didn’t understand why, it was all so innocent (looking!). Took a long time to figure out the problem was it made it seem ok to go into an eccentric older single man’s house who plays with dolls.
It was a simpler day, but not THAT much simpler. My brother and I had been lured into a mans house to “watch movies” just a couple of years before that when we were very little.