Tonight I went to see A Prairie Home Companion at Grand Forks's only cinema. It seemed appropriate to watch the movie surrounded by people from a small town on the prairie who laughed good humoredly at all the midwestern jokes and repeated the funniest lines over to each other in their North Dakota accents.
I don't know how many people have seen it yet, so I won't give too much information here. I do want to say that the redemption of Lindsey Lohan has begun. The highlight of the movie for me was when she sang a song with Garrison Keillor. About beans. And Kevin Kline, man, that diction IPA may have screwed me over, but it did him a lot of good (yes, the woman who wrote the textbook for our diction course tutored Kevin Kline and he wrote a glowing review that was printed on the back cover). Garrison Keillor was undeniably brilliant. It was amazing watching him. It was like Huck Finn had agreed to play himself in a movie version of Huckleberry Finn. I'm still living in the wake of my awe.
Tomorrow I'm going to go check out St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Grand Forks. Everyone else here seems to be Baptist and there is no PCA home for me so I'm off to discover new, or rather old, territory.
Posted by linnea at June 17, 2006 11:22 PMooo, ooo, i want to see it, i want to see it.
Posted by: laura at June 19, 2006 2:46 PMOkay, Keri and I saw it last night. Really liked it. Did you recognize the penguin joke? It was strange, I was recalling that joke to Keri before the show, having no idea that it was such a focal point of the movie. The way Max told it always cracked me up.
Posted by: laura at June 30, 2006 2:33 PM