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cheek advertisements and introduces guest musicians like the rustic cowhands Dusty and Lefty (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) or the chummy Johnson Sisters (Meryl Streep and Lily Tbmlin). The performers go on stage with stoic oblivion, standing on the brink of their last show, with the new owner scheduled to deliver the official word by the night’s end. The performers make barely a mention about the impending cancellation because, as the narrator (Kevin Wine as security guard Guy Noir) informs us, the Midwestern belief is “if you ignore bad news it will go away.”
While “A Prairie Home Companion” does not quite reach the glory of some of his 70s classics, it does offer everything you hope to see in an Altman picture: long takes, quirky characters, biting humor,
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