'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' and 'Joker' Invoke Opposing Sides of the Human Psyche09 Dec 2019, 11:35The recent film release, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” by Marielle Heller, is based on the Esquire magazine article, "Can you say..Hero?" that award-winning journalist Tom Junod wrote in 1998 about Fred Rogers.Can polar opposites, an empathic Mister Rogers and a cynical writer, be friends?