I bought Prairie Home Companion last week on DVD and watched it on Sunday. I really enjoyed it. It's not my favorite Altman movie (that distinction goes to The Player,) but it was good. Is there anything that Meryl Streep can't do? Her singing is absolutely wonderful. And Lily Tomlin? Woot. Love me some Lily. I'd like to have Lily over for some chili and cornbread. I love Lily's face with its age lines. No Botox for Lily. She's over 60 and it shows but that's a good thing. I hate expressionless actor-Botoxed faces.
Remember that god awful movie she was in with John Travolta years and years ago? I can't remember the name of it and I'm too lazy to Google it, but it was enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth. she was wooden. He was wooden, and the script sucked. NO CHEMISTRY.
PHC is not for everyone. There's not a single M16 firing or car chase or bank explosion in the entire movie. It's slow and steady and satisfying. Garrison Keillor is a surprisely good actor--even though he was playing a character named "Garrison Keillor." What a stretch.
Sometimes I don't like Kevin Kline. In some movies he comes off as being too "actor-y" but he was okay in this. Guy Noir was his character's name. What a great name.
SNL's Maya Rudolph was in it and was surprisingly okay.
Who sucked in the movie, you ask. Okay I'll tell you who sucked in the movie. Lindsay Lohan sucked, that's who. She's such a cartoon in the media with her antics that I couldn't get passed the buzz and see her as this dark teen obsessed with suicide and bad poetry. She needs to go away for about ten years and come back and "ACT."
Another pot smoking loony actor I don't like is Woody Herrelson. Blech. But John C Reilly, who was in Chicago, was a-okay as Woody's singing cowboy partner.
Oh, and on that gossipy website that Mems got me hooked on, someone says Meryl is addicted to pornos. Eh. That's ok. She sings like an angel and she should be nominated again for an Oscar for her role in The Devil Wears Prada. The woman is mesmerizing.
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Agree about Nic Kidman. She used to be really beautiful.
Nice fall colors Wemma.
Despite my personal issues with that damned Garrison Keillor I would like to see that movie.. perhaps now that it is out for rental I will give it a look. I have always loved Meryl and if you ever get a chance to see her in "Alice at the Palace" an early musical version of Alice in wonderland you must watch it... it is wonderful
oh and what gossipy website? I must be brain dead
I love Lohan in "The Parent Trap". Sad though to watch it when you realize where she ended up.
I can't imagine Meryl being addicted to porn. How can that be? She's a great actress. Not beautiful by any stretch of the imagination but a tribute to a funny looking person becoming famous due to talent. She was great in "The Manchurian Candidate".
Moment by Moment (1978).
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