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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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