There’s no apostrophe in Mr. Rogers. Rogers is his name. It’s not possessive.
I don’t have an answer to your question, but it reminds me of Jim Varney (actor who played Ernest in the Ernest movies). He was a smoker, but was careful to not be photographed smoking, so any kids who looked up to him wouldn’t consequently think smoking was cool.
If you've never watched Fun to Imagine, check it out sometime. It's just an hour of him sitting in a chair answering questions/sharing his thoughts and I wish there were hours more like it. It's so great.
This doesn’t really answer the question, but sometimes it’s not so much who the role model is but what action they want to model.
Maybe it was wanting to get better at controlling emotions, being great at communicating during a breakup, or a general attitude towards problems that come up.
When I see someone admire / want to emulate the good actions of others, that’s a green flag.
Watching someone fuck something up, research, a video game, a car repair, that costs them a lot of time and took a ton of effort, then just laughing and going with the after math. It tells a lot about your character when something doesn’t go your way.
It’s not really here or there, but when I was a young child, I saw Star Trek: The Next Generation before Reading Rainbow, so my parents had to explain how actors worked when I was baffled how the blind man was teaching me how to read.
I did love Reading Rainbow, though, and still read regularly, probably in part thanks to Levar Burton.
That’s a great story! I was…maybe…11…when STTNG came out, so I had already seen RR prior. I was super excited to see an actor I knew appear on the show.
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