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Garrison Keillor is the voice of America's shrinking center, a melancholy flatlands existentialist who has masked his often dark materials under a slow-spoken amiability. His Lake Wobegon stories are nearly always about the failure of ideas and ambitions that the plain and simple folks of his fictional home town are too shy, too modest, to openly admit, let alone effectively act upon...
Keillor, who plays himself, originally intended to focus on Lake Wobegon, the imaginary small town that forms the backdrop to Companion. But Altman wanted a fictional documentary about the show itself, with nearly all the action confined to the theater and its backstage environs where the characters' raffish private lives unfold. So goodbye, Lake Wobegon...
MARRIED. Garrison Keillor, 43, wry raconteur of U.S. small-town foibles on radio's A Prairie Home Companion and in his phenomenal best seller (1,064,000 copies) Lake Wobegon Days; and Ulla Skaerved, 42, Danish former exchange student in Keillor's Minnesota high school class of 1960, whom he met again at a 25th reunion last summer; both for the second time; in Holte, Denmark...
Congratulations on recognizing Garrison Keillor, one of Minnesota's great natural resources. We are proud that the nation finds humor and solace in hearing about the down-home values embraced by the residents of Lake Wobegon. But those values exist in real life, in hundreds of small towns and dozens of large cities in Minnesota. We welcome the rest of the nation to our well-kept secret: Minnesota is a great place to live and work. Rudy Perpich Governor, Minnesota St. Paul...
...city boy now, I once lived in a small town like Keillor's Lake Wobegon. If you look more closely at the local charismatic characters, they invariably are vicious bigots of the worst sort. Ned Gross Sarasota...