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An old school theater (ticket $5.00, leather couch for $1 extra, $2.50 for a box of popcorn), featuring an old school movie \u2013 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood<\/em> — a movie about Fred Rogers \u2013 and an old school audience (estimated average age 60). <\/p>\n\n\n\n If the audience that night was polarized, you couldn\u2019t tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesmerized was more like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fred Rogers believed that \u201clove is at the root of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Star Theater Saturday night was quieter than any church Sunday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At one time during the movie, Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) asks a reporter \u2013 Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) \u2013\u00a0 writing a profile of Rogers for Esquire<\/em> magazine \u2013 to stop for a moment of silence for \u201cthe people who loved us into being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dead quiet on the screen and in the theater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a peep from the 150 people in the theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No Republicans, no Democrats, no cell phones ringing, no screaming, no Fox News, no CNN, no MSNBC, no Trump, no Pelosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just quiet contemplation about the people who loved us into existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood<\/em> was just that on Saturday night \u2013 a beautiful break from the noise and screaming all around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday night at the Star Theater in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia and the place was packed. An old school theater (ticket $5.00, leather couch for $1 extra, $2.50 for a box of popcorn), featuring an old school movie \u2013 A … Continue reading