everyone, this is lloyd vogel, he is a wonderful writer.mance is so strange, the first time you meet the character, i couldn't get a handle on him at all, exactly as journalist is. then during their conversations, every time lloyd asks about fred, he kind of turns round back to it about being lloyd. now, this is based by a journalist who did say that after meeting fred rogers, his worldview did change, he started to try and see the good in things. in the case of this, they have fictionalised and over dramatised the story of lloyd vogel, he is in the middle of real, personal crisis. through his meeting with fred, he does come to change, in a much more dramatic way than actually happened in real life. but the kernel of truth is there, that somebody with this dyspeptic view of the world met this figure who just seems like nobody could be that nice, nobody could be that positive, and somehow couldn't discover a chink in their armour. i have to say, it is hard, nay, impossible, to think of an actor other than tom hanks who could have pulled that