Unfortuntately, even in the edited form I saw it in back in the day, Martin Sheen has always registered as this sick fuck no matter what I see him in, including Pres. Bartlett.

This is totally me. I saw that movie when I was eleven or twelve, on TV, and ever since then Martin Sheen has carried a vaguely sleazy, very creepy vibe for me. Loved the movie, though, and the book, too.

I saw A Prairie Home Companion this afternoon, and it was pure joy. Just really really pleasant to watch. And great music, and some of it is just hysterically funny. I'd see it again in a second.

oh, yay!

I rather liked it, too, although it struck me a little more Altman than Keilor. I am really glad they made it, though, since, like the t-shirt says, "extinct is forever".

It strikes me Keillorness might be hard to film and I'm not sure why.

Well, a lot of the humor is in the descriptions and digressions, which film isn't so great at conveying, at least not in a humorous way.

And it's quiet...filming that would look to me like when Yoko Ono asked Paul from Mad about You to film the wind.

I'm not a Keillor fan, but I'm Altman fan enough to give the movie a whirl.

I saw the Prairie Home Companion on stage in San Diego many, many moons ago. It was a lot of fun. I hope they managed to translate that over to the film, there's such a difference between the feel of a stage performance and a film performance I'm afraid I'd find the film lacking.

There was a part on The Wire last season where a young cornerboy freaked when he couldn't find his radio station and got PHC about tomatoes. Cause he didn't know when you leave town the stations change. I don't think he'd been anywhere.