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TUNING IN.(A Prairie Home Companion)(Movie review)
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Robert Altman, the protean and ageless movie director, and Garrison Keillor, the creator of and chief performer on the incomparable publicradio variety show "A Prairie Home Companion," have collaborated on a movie based on that show, and it suddenly seems obvious that the two men have much in common. Both are Midwesterners, and they share habits of offhandedness, a natural ease and fluency, and a glancing but prickly humor that moves inexorably toward melancholy satire. Altman has his smooth-flowing sequences in which the camera picks up a character, drops him, picks him up again, and then moves on to other characters caught ...
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- Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail THE ASSOCIATED PRESS September 10, 2009 700+ words
...Humorist Garrison Keillor still plans to...A Prairie Home Companion" as scheduled...A Prairie Home Companion," Keillor said. "And that...it was Monday. Keillor is scheduled to...A Prairie Home Companion" on Sept. 26...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Kevin Klose February 16, 1987 700+ words
...a showman as Garrison Keillor, the amusing creator of "A Prairie Home Companion." Keillor provided fans unwanted...of 17 "Prairie Home Companion" shows, part of a lucrative...admirers to the cult of Keillor? Yes. With the unexpected...
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- Magazine article from: Sing Out! September 22, 2005 700+ words
...Minn. theater for his adaptation of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. Keillor wrote the movie's script and will be playing a character named, as you may have guessed, Keillor. A few Prairie Home regulars like Sue Scott...
- Minnesota Public Radio & Garrison Keillor Welcomes 300 Visitors For a Wobegon...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 9, 2002 700+ words
...A Prairie Home Companion, creator and host Garrison Keillor, extended an invitation...A Prairie Home Companion, followed by a...reception hosted by Keillor himself. And as...A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor hosts a daily five...
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- Magazine article from: The Christian Century March 22, 2003 700+ words
...Poems. Selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor. Viking, 476 pp., $25.95. GARRISON KEILLOR'S latest book is a collection of poems...Carver, Lisel Mueller and Donald Hall. Keillor is a powerful reciter of varied kinds of...
- 'A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor' Signs with Toyota.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 21, 2005 700+ words
...of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, the popular weekly...America. Garrison Keillor, host and creator of A Prairie Home Companion, said of Toyota...A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor appeals to people...
- A little oddity on the 'Prairie'; Robert Altman directs 'A Prairie Home...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 9, 2006 700+ words
...Prairie Home Companion," which Altman...from a script by Keillor, that incorporates...Prairie Home Companion" has always...concoction and Keillor's News From...Prairie Home Companion," he buys into Keillor's forlorn sentimentalism...
- The gloomy view from Lake Wobegon.(author and host of 'A Prairie Home...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Barsamian, David January 5, 1998 700+ words
Garrison Keillor, the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion, has worked in radio since 1963. He was recently interviewed by David Barsamian, producer of Alternative Radio, a public affairs...
