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Film For Folksy Fun: Ye Old Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion has now made the transition from charming NPR Americana to a movie of the same name and content.

Like the long-running radio variety show, it idealizes popular culture with ingratiating sentimentality, along with skits of its own, such as the deadpan doings of inspector Guy Noir, here played by Off-Broadway escapee Kevin Kline.

The film, also featuring the likes of Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin, is based on a plot that, we must admit, seems a bit indelicate but does center around a catastrophe bound to make the hearts of the show’s most loyal fans undergo a blip.

It seems that, unlike the ever-supportive NPR, the movie’s host station, WLT, has been acquired by the obligatorily greedy and unwise chain, whose corporate villainy is represented by an unlikely fellow whose graceful appellation is the Axeman.

He has, of course, been sent to sign the show off forever.

We conclude with the inevitable end of such a notice, that if you like the radio show, you’ll love the road show.

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