A Prairie Home Companion
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discussed in biography
- In Robert Altman: Final years
Altman’s final film was A Prairie Home Companion (2006), based on Garrison Keillor’s popular radio series.
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Harrelson
- In Woody Harrelson
>A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men (2007). He later gave an Oscar-nominated performance as an army officer tasked with delivering the news of the deaths of soldiers to their families in The Messenger (2009). He costarred…
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Keillor
- In Garrison Keillor
…appeared in, Robert Altman’s film A Prairie Home Companion (2006). He edited several volumes of poetry, including Good Poems (2002), Good Poems for Hard Times (2005), and Good Poems, American Places (2011), and published a collection of his own, O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound (2013).
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Tomlin
- In Lily Tomlin
…played an existential detective; and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), Altman’s adaptation of Garrison Keillor’s radio series. In Grandma (2015) Tomlin deployed her trademark acidity as the supportive but no-nonsense grandmother of a pregnant teenager.
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