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I really, really hope this movie doesn't suck.
I'm a fan of Garrison Keillor's homespun radio humor; I've spent more
than a few hours listening to him tell stories of a place that never
was and we wouldn't like if we found it was real. There's a
gentleness to the show, the storytelling and the plays and the songs.
I'm curious to see how it'll translate to film. And dreading it as
well.
But at least we get the album. And that's pretty good. It's a little
more star-studded than the radio show. And they probably took more
than one take to get it right, not that the radio show seems to have
suffered from the demands of live performance. The best compliment I
can pay to the album is that it sounds like a particularly good
episode of the show. And that's nice, mostly. Which is a Powdermilk
Biscuit reference. But then you knew that, didn't you?
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