Saturday, June 17, 2006

A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION




Comedy

BACKGROUND
A Prairie Home Companion first aired on public radio station in 1969 on Saturday nights from 5 to 7 p.m. It was created and hosted by Garrison Keillor from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota.

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Kevin Kline: Guy Noir, former P.I. now Vice-President in charge of security
Meryl Streep: Yolanda Johnson, eldest of the singing Johnson Sisters
Lily Tomlin: Rhonda, her younger sister
Lindsay Lohan: Yolanda's teenaged daughter Lola
Garrison Keillor: G.K., the show’s emcee
Maya Rudolph: stage manager Molly
Woody Harrleson: Dusty, one of the singing duo called the Old Trailhands
John C. Reilly: his companion Lefty
Virginia Madsen: the woman in the white trench coat
L. Q. Jones: Chuck Akers, an old-time C&W singer
Tommy Lee Jones: the Axeman

REVIEW
Entertaining, especially if you like country and western music, it’s easy to see why the real show was so popular all those years. Meryl Streep is made for this movie and it showcases her talent as a singer as well as an actor. First rate acting throughout although Lindsay Lohan’s role could have been played but most anyone.

CLASSIFICATION
for risqué humor (= one song with off-colour lyrics)

FOR NITPICKERS ONLY
The call letters of the host radio station were WNT not WLT.

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