Who doesn’t love LeVar Burton? He was Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge, Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed ‘70s TV miniseries Roots and, of course, he taught generations of kids that reading is cool, so long as it’s on television.
This week, the Reading Rainbow host was presented with a National Humanities Medal, which “honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities,” for his “acting and literacy advocacy work.” The medal was presented to Burton during a private ceremony at the White House.
Despite the fact that he’s now been feted by the President of the United States, some people are still quizzing Burton about a silly show that once explored the corpo-humanization of the Subway empire.
TVLine recently sat down with Burton and, instead of asking him about, say, the state of child literacy in America, they tried to get him to offer up some juicy details about the long-gestating Communitymovie. …