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A woman is raped by a football player. She tesifies against him and lives in isolation in the freshman dorm. One night, there is knock on her door. She opens it, and another football player fills it. “Hello,” he says. “My name is Irv Pankey, and I believe everything you say.” 1/
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Here is the trailier for nicole_noren’s beautiful film. The trailer is just a minute long, and yet you can’t miss the light it shines, the light *they* shine: “Betsy & Irv.” End.
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He is the only player to have done so, though he eventually found others to follow his example. He changed the life of a brave woman shattered by a two-hour sexual assault at knifepoint, a woman who forevermore called Irv Pankey “my guardian angel.” 5/
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“What would you have had them do?” is more than a rhetorical question, because it has an answer. Be a helper. Be a hero. Be like Irv Pankey. Knock on the door. Believe. 9/
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Today, “Betsy & Irv,” the film
@nicole_noren
made for
@ESPNFilms
from their reunion in State College premieres on
@ESPNPlus
. It features Betsy Sailor and Irv Pankey, now in their 60s, telling their story. It is a film as beautiful and luminous as its heroes. 7/
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One of 12 African-American players on
@PennStateFball
team in 1978, Irv saw in Betsy Sailor something of his own isolation. He thought, “She does not deserve to be a pariah” and went to her door. He said “You will never have to walk on this campus alone again.” 4/
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19 years ago, Richard Drew shot a picture of a man falling through the sky. It was published the next day and then disappeared, as a taboo image. But it has since become a symbol for all that was lost that day. RIP, the fallen, and the falling.
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I was in that room and did those interviews. I was there when Betsy spoke of calling her mother to tell her she had been raped. I was there when Irv once again knocked on Betsy’s door and time went away. I will never forget and if you watch “Betsy & Irv” neither will you. 8/
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What would you have had them do? Here is Irv Pankey’s answer: “I had to go get her.” 10/
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When
@pinepaula
and I were working on
#Untold
, our story about Todd Hodne and his crimes at Penn State 4 decades ago, many people asked us a question about the coaches, cops and players who learned about Hodne in real-time: “What would you have had them do?” 2/
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The story is not Comey, or Johnson, or Stein. The story is that white conservatives did not reject this man, no matter what he did.
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By suppressing “The Falling Man,”
@Facebook
is again deeming some stories too disturbing to tell. I’m hoping the platform will adjust its algorithm to allow those stories to be told, on this day of all days. May all who died on 9/11 rest in peace.
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I have been told that
@Esquire
has lifted the paywall on "The Falling Man" so I'm posting the link. Thanks all.
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20 years ago, I began investigating the banishment from the public square of a photograph I saw on the morning of 9/12/01 and never again. I wound up writing “The Falling Man” because I discovered that
@RDPhotographer
’s taboo photograph told the stories of so many. 1/
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As I wrote in “The Falling Man”: “…hundreds of people died by leaping from a burning building, and we have somehow taken it upon ourselves to deem their deaths unworthy of witness—because we have somehow deemed the act of witness, in this one regard, unworthy of us." 6/
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The notion that there was a right way to die on 9/11 and a wrong way — that there were some deaths we were willing to talk about and some we weren’t, because they were too upsetting and because they violated the national narrative. 5/
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The photograph has never lost its power. It remains shocking and upsetting to many. But that is as it should be, because the loss the photograph represents is eternal. 8/
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“Nobody jumped,” the NYC Medical Examiner’s office told me back then. But
@RDPhotographer
told a different story in his photograph — the story of people who died grabbing one last breath while their world turned into smoke and fire. 7/
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On the occasion of the forthcoming release of
@ABeautifulDay
, I wrote an essay for
@TheAtlantic
on Fred Rogers -- about why I needed him when I met him, and about why the world needs him now.
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Joanne Rogers — Mrs. Rogers — died this morning at the age of 92. There was no one else like her, except maybe her husband Fred. 1/
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It is finally happening, and in the best of ways: a movie, very loosely based on the article I wrote for
@Esquire
20 years ago, with Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, two innovative screenwriters from "Transparency" scripting, and Marielle Heller directing. Well-timed, for this moment.
Tom Hanks' Mr. Rogers biopic 'You Are My Friend' lands at TriStar (EXCLUSIVE)
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“We had to remove something you posted because we’re concerned it might promote or encourage self-harm or suicidal behavior.” 3/
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On January 6, 2021, I felt the way I felt on September 11, 2001, with the same outraged sorrow at the targeting of the American idea. As September 11 became 9/11, so has January 6 become, in my mind and heart, 1/6.
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I like softball so much that I traveled last year with
@AuburnSoftball
to write a story explaining why. Instead, the team was torn apart in front of me, and I wound up writing about a secret, a scandal, traumatized players and a legacy undone.
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A few days ago, I received an email from someone who had read the story
@pinepaula
and I wrote about the crimes of a former
@PennStateFball
player named Todd Hodne. The reader wanted to talk about another Nittany Lion, Irv Pankey. 1/
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If anyone's writing a book about our utter fecklessness in the face of mass shootings, the title should be "Thoughts And Prayers."
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The Fred Rogers profile which inspired the movie to be made with Tom Hanks was the cover story of our "Heroes" issue. And the best thing about today's news is that Hanks wants Fred to be understood as a hero of his time -- meaning our time, right now.
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@marielleheller
Hi Marielle. Yesterday, on Facebook, I wrote about a Fred Rogers talisman I've held onto since he gave it to me 20 years ago. I thought you might want to see it, and the post.
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The National Endowment for the Arts is set to be abolished by a man who reportedly endowed a 6-ft. portrait of himself from his own charity.
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What kind of man runs for nine miles in the NFL?
@frankgore
might be the last running back ever to do so, and now he talks about the secrets of survival and how he might pass them on. A story about the Last Running Back...and the next.
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"We will have so much whining if I get elected you'll get bored with whining."
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Trump's videotaped statement is not an apology; it's a threat.
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For the last two years I’ve been working on a story about heroism, redemption, a terrible secret and the pitiless hand of fate. It is now just about to reach fruition as a TV documentary and a long form feature. Here’s the trailer.
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If airlines don't want people traveling with fever, they should make it easier to cancel and reschedule flights without penalty.
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Mike Tomlin wouldn't talk to me. But that gave me the opportunity to contemplate a lot of other things about him, starting with his face.
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I'm not happy with Esquire's decision to keep the Falling Man behind a paywall this year, but I don't work there anymore and I have no say. I am happy, however, with the work of
@AlexBelth
on the story of how that story came to be.
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She was a friend whom I loved and love still. And for the rest of my life I will both miss and draw strength from the fact that she loved me, and thought to tell me so every time we spoke. God bless Mister and Mrs. Rogers, and may the both of them rest in peace. 6/
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This happened last summer in Michigan and no one did anything. It turned out to be a dry run.
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Trump's staff has had to take away his Twitter account. That makes me feel just great about his having the nuclear codes.
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Ideological warfare on social media is like trench warfare in World War One: there is hardly any movement; if you step out, you get shot, and if you stay in, you get sick.
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Hey folks: this is one of the greatest of all magazine stories, written with a care that reflects the care taken with the body of Joey Montgomery. I mean, I still remember where I read it, and what it felt like. It's *that* kind of story.
It's been 12 years since Joey Montgomery was killed in Iraq; 11 since I had the honour to write about him, his family, and his fellow soldiers for
@Esquire
. Please, as ever, take a moment this weekend to remember him and them.
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The story of Muhammad Ali's death -- a year ago tomorrow -- is the measure of his life, and his greatness.
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Bannon's invocation of the name of William Jennings Bryan was one seriously esoteric dog whistle, but a a dog whistle nonetheless.
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That I had both of them in my life — Fred for four and a half years, Joanne for 22 — is not just one of the great gifts of my life; it is the gift that seems so unaccountable that it is the closest I’ve come to the experience of grace. 2/
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I grew up on Long Island, where 9/11 happened yesterday. I wanted to write about that -- about never forgetting -- so in June I went to watch the cops and the firemen play football. They gave me a story about grief and loss and, of course, breaking balls.
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When you have to write a bunch of crap in order to get to the single clarifying sentence that tells you everything you need to know about your own story, you may tell yourself you won't have to endure the whole exercise next time. But you'll be wrong.
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When I wrote this story, I emailed Mr. Dylan a series of questions in rhymed couplets. His manservant responded quickly: “You probably think this will increase the chances of getting an interview. It won’t.”
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The great conservative crisis is that
@nytdavidbrooks
can write a whole column on the great conservative crisis without mentioning race.
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Many thanks to everyone who has read and commented on "The Falling Man" over the last two days. But I'd like to answer a concern that I've seen expressed in a few tweets -- the concern that the photo & story inflict trauma on families already traumatized by loss. 1/
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I've never called a story a "must-read" on Twitter. Until now. What James Foley & Co endured before their beheadings.
http://t.co/FV1uFhp4Y8
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There is a lot of beautiful footage in
@MrRogersMovie
. But the sequence with Koko both moved my heart and blew my mind. RIP, fellow primate.
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” –Mister Rogers
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The last time I spoke to Joanne was Wednesday, 1/6, after the atrocity at the Capitol; I called to give her comfort but of course I also call to receive comfort in return. And that’s how it always was. 3/
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The first person I've spoken to who in casual conversation referred to Joe Biden as "president elect": Joanne (Mrs.) Rogers.
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The veracity of Comey's testimony is bolstered and not eroded by the fact he told the truth about information not helpful to his cause.
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A profile of Joanne Rogers that captures her high spirits and talent for friendship. When she said, "Bless your heart," she was not being sarcastic.
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That Fred Rogers is having his moment 15 years after his death is one of gifts of our troubled time. Take advantage of that moment, and go see the
@MrRogersMovie
that opens tomorrow. A singular man's acts of kindness are captured onscreen, and they are startlingly beautiful.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu saying what needs to be said: "The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity."
This really is a must-read speech, with a clear-eyed view of our past as well as our present.
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There was nobody else who laughed like Joanne Rogers. There was nobody else who made kindness sound not like a burden but rather like a source of raucous pleasure. 4/
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The MyPillow guy never looks like he’s had a good night’s sleep.
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So apparently I don't know how to thread, which is to say my thread is unthreaded, my egg is scrambled, my little game of solitaire reduced to one of 52-Pickup. Here's a link to the original story anyway:
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My father bet his first Super Bowl when I was 8 years old and for the next 10 years I was his tout. We lost a lot of money together, but it's what kept us all together until the bitter end. A memoir of "the family vice."
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Having to tell my daughter, adopted from China, that we're going to keep her safe, that nobody is going to take her away.
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She was truly delightful, in both her capacity for delight and to be delighted, and nobody, not even Fred, was as good at calling out of the blue at the precise moment you needed to hear from her, with the sustenance of surprise. 5/
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On Sunday night,
@espn
is airing a documentary on Bruce Lee, called "Be Water." For the occasion, I wrote an essay on encountering Bruce Lee in my all-white world of Long Island, and the eventual effect he had on my life.
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I saw
@ABeautifulDay
a few weeks ago and was tremendously moved by it, while knowing at the same time that I was too close to be objective. So I am really happy about the response to the trailer. Thanks for all the kind words, everybody.
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There been many terrific pieces on what we stand to lose if Trump wins, This, by
@jelani9
, might be the best.
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@ABeautifulDay
@TheAtlantic
The essay includes excerpts from the emails he sent me from the time we met until he got sick, and they are just as amazing as you might think. He was, in addition to being a great man, a great writer.
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I am frequently asked what Mister Rogers would say about Donald Trump. Well, we now know what Mrs Rogers would say. There was no one like Fred; there is also no one like Joanne, and I love and admire her more and more.
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@GlennKesslerWP
I traveled once with HRC and it nearly broke me. That woman was made of iron.
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Chuck Berry taught me how to interview a badass. Gave me nothing til I got desperate & asked about global warming. Then he talked & talked.
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Bob McKillop, the great college coach of
@StephenCurry30
, was my high school history teacher. I went to see him recently at
@DavidsonMBB
, and he taught me a lesson about all the changes that had to occur in order for Steph to change the game.
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Four years ago on this day, Muhammad Ali died. A year later, I wrote this piece about the people who took him to his rest, and how they all found common ground caring for "The Greatest." Thanks,
@ESPN
, for reposting on this day, and in this time.
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Peace to all the men & women who fell, and their famiiles. And thanks. 6/6
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So subdued and serious, he said he was going to deport or imprison 2 to 3 million people, and
@LesleyRStahl
didn't blink an eye.
“I saw quite a change,”
@LesleyRStahl
says of
@realDonaldTrump
. “He was much more subdued, much more serious.”
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Crowd-sourcing excursion for a book I'm writing: this photo was taken in Miami Beach, in 1946, by a photographer named HW Hannau, who shot landscapes and pinups. The man is my father. I'm trying to find out the identity of the woman. Any suggestions appreciated.
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There are stories of which you are proud, and there are stories for which you are grateful. The latter is, to say the least, less common, but in 2017 I wrote a story for which every single interview seemed an unaccountable gift. Happy 2018, all.
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@brithume
@DickYoungsGhost
@AmericanAir
There are first world problems. And then there are First Class problems. Talk about a bubble.
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My wife preserved the July 21, 1969 edition of
@nytimes
— MEN WALK ON MOON — when she was a child. I read through it this AM and it’s amazing, not least because there’s a poem on the front page and four of them in the Op-Eds, one by Anne Sexton, writing on deadline.
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The story addresses what I thought was a prevailing prejudice about 9/11 — that there was a “good way” to die. There was no good way to die. There were just good people who died, victims of a terrible crime. 5/
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Here is the beautiful and heartbroken story that won the National Magazine Award for
@MatthewTeague
and
@esquire
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This election was not about liberals. It was about conservatives, and what they were willing to accept and do in exchange for power.
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.
@ABeautifulDay
is filled with many wonders, not just of feeling but of moviemaking. Thanks to
@tnyfrontrow
for capturing them in his generous, discerning and deeply-felt cinephile’s review.
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Fred Rogers died 14 years ago today. A great man, more necessary now than ever.
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@davidfrum
No. Sleeping on a MyPillow pillow is like sleeping on a few egg cartons stuffed into a gunny sack, or a cardboard Slinky. I have a right-wing family member who has MyPillow products in every bed in his home -- including in guest bedrooms, alas -- and even he admits they're awful.
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