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    'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' review: Celebrating a gentle giant of children's TV

    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Jun 06, 2018 3 minutes

    "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" is a depressingly good documentary about a singularly empathetic television personality. Fred Rogers (1928-2003) knew what he was up against in a culture, and an economy, built on marketable aggression. Against long odds he prevailed. Now he belongs to another time. Can his spirit of gentle reassurance possibly be revived, in any form?

    I wish I were more optimistic. The "bombardment" Rogers once described as commercial children's programming,

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