A Prarie Home Companion~

[SFEnnisSF]

Well I've seen it four times now  , and bought the soundtrack with the bonus DVD. 

[twistedude]

I'll be seeing it again too, and buying the souindtrack, and points west.

[henrypie]

I just saw it yesterday, in fact.
Maybe it was bad case of high expectations, but I didn't love it.  I could watch Meryl Streep for hours and thought her performance was great.  I thought Kevin Kline's performance was dear and kind of an Otto (A Fish Called Wanda) redux, which cannot be a bad thing.  But I couldn't figure out the tone -- the slapstick wasn't funny enough; the ominous wasn't particularly ominous; the sad didn't reach me.  It was, in a way, as through the glass in the booth -- just didn't reach me.

I was annoyed by the audience, who seemed to confuse what was familiar with what was funny, and therefore laughed at everything.

I was also looking for a gimmick that didn't really happen -- I wanted the show to be in stricter real-time.  It almost was (it's a two-hour show), but there was no News from Lake Wobegon, and the reading of the letters was aborted, and not all that amusingly, and the sound-effects thing could have been really satisfying but wasn't.

But hooray for Robin and Linda Williams -- they rocked.

[henrypie]

p.s. I was scorching Dusty and Lefty with scrutiny.  You know, cowboys.  With guitars.  But they seemed really straight.  There seems to be more chemistry between Keillor and Russell.

[starboardlight]

p.s. I was scorching Dusty and Lefty with scrutiny.  You know, cowboys.  With guitars.  But they seemed really straight.  There seems to be more chemistry between Keillor and Russell.

same here. These are not the Dusty and Lefty that I've come to love. To me, they were just two actors who told jokes.

[henrypie]

Amen, Starbie.
HUP!