 ", which landed him on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in February 2003, on a program about people who had changed their lives, where Carl spoke about leaving Hollywood to move back to his hometown to teach at the University of Pittsburgh for what he thought would be a one-year Hollywood sabbatical.This journey inspired a movie Kurlander produced and directed, "My Tale of Two Cities" about coming home and the city of Pittsburgh reinventing itself for a new age.The film uses the metaphor of Pittsburgh being the real-life "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and, during the making of the film, Kurlander and his crew got crowds from Times Square to Beverly Hills to sing Fred Rogers' theme song "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"