Sentences with phrase «me home companion»

And then there's Kuri, an adorable rolling home companion that can livestream video, take photos, blink, smile, move its head, «chirp affirmingly,» react to your voice, and play music.

A Prairie Home Companion?

When God speaks to me, he sounds a lot like Garrison Keillor, host of the radio show «A Prairie Home Companion.»

«A Prairie Home Companion» was our primary form of entertainment on Sunday afternoons.

I think Prairie Home Companion itself has a church - like role to a certain extent.

So «Prairie Home Companion» was launched on Minnesota Public Radio on July 6, 1974, moving from Macalester College to successively larger theaters, finally finding a permanent home in 1978 at the 630 - capacity World Theater in St. Paul.

In mid-June Garrison Keillor departs his weekly public radio program «A Prairie Home Companion» and heads for Denmark, with the hope of returning to the obscurity necessary for leading the literary life.

It fixes time, and not just in the announcement of the hour or half hour, or simply in our awareness that it's 3:00 in Seattle when «Prairie Home Companion» comes on or 6:30 when «All Things Considered» is over.

This is not far from the voice Keillor uses in the liner notes to his record, A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album, where he compares his show to his memory:

It has been decreed in my neighborhood that every week all serious work ends at 3:00 on Saturday afternoon, when Garrison Keillor's «Prairie Home Companion» comes on the air.

In the first place, it is not true that such programs as MacNeil - Lehrer Report, Washington Week in Review, Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion appeal only to affluent Americans.

At its best, Cobb has made a powerful case for the «Prairie Home Companion»; at its most frightening worse, he touches on themes that led Pol Pot to his violent deconstruction of every tendency toward modernization.

When he was a 12 - year - old route boy for Collier's and Women's Home Companion magazines, his younger sister, Mary Lou, had to knock on doors to collect payment because he was too timid.

Cocker and springer spaniels are particularly adaptableto the dual role of hunting and home companions.

Her work has appeared in a number of print publications including Caregivers Home Companion, Midwifery Today and Guide.

«A Prairie Home Companion» has been given a new name — «Live from Here» — in the wake of creator Garrison Keillor's acrimonious split with Minnesota Public Radio.

A Solar Home Companion with Josh Fox, Zephyr Teachout & musical guests, Tuesday, March 10, 6 p.m., free, Lecture Center 100, SUNY - New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz; [email protected].

If you believe that the best sources of energy are wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal and human beings committed to a cause, you won't want to miss A Solar Home Companion.

Josh's new effort: The Solutions Grassroots Tour: A Solar Home Companion is making several stops in our region this weekend and early next week.

while listening to A Prairie Home Companion on the radio.

Fans who cherish Robert Altman's largely»70s - derived reputation as a cynical, jaded crank might want to skip A Prairie Home Companion altogether.

A Prairie Home Companion echoes Altman's recent, overlooked The Company in its affectionate portrayal of the quirks, eccentricities, and loose camaraderie of a community of artists united in a common goal.

Altman and Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion is fittingly both a celebration and a winning example of the joys of collaboration.

Framing the film around the definition of «Altmanesque,» Altman goes through the filmmaker's work one at a time in chronological order, starting with his work on television up to his swan song A Prairie Home Companion.

And while we knew this woman of 1,000 voices could also sing — Streep handled vocal duties in A Prairie Home Companion and Postcards from the Edge with skill — turns out she's got a primo set of pipes and a fearless style of from - the - heart dancing that shows she can handle the heavy lifting required to carry a musical lead.

There is a great movie in «A Prairie Home Companion,» which is based on Garrison Keillor's long - running radio show.

For those who only know her from her comic sketches on «Saturday Night Live,» her work here will come as a revelation (although her brief but marvelous work in Robert Altman's «A Prairie Home Companion,» where she really was pregnant, should have been a tip - off).

She gets to reunite with Sophie's Choice and A Prairie Home Companion co-star Kevin Kline.

(Altman handpicked Anderson as his proxy during the filming of A Prairie Home Companion, in case he became too ill to continue.)

She got her chance at the University Of Iowa, where she double - majored in journalism and film, started freelancing reviews to the university's newspaper, and wound up running its Arts & Entertainment section while giving herself a crash course in cinema via VHS and Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion.

who has been chosen to be used in an experiment (the Army wants to keep their best men for then they need them most) where he is to be placed in suspended hibernation for a year, alongside a prostitute named Rita (Rudolph, A Prairie Home Companion).

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

The 12 - film Robert Altman retrospective will screen «M * A * S * H» (1970), «McCabe & Mrs. Miller» (1971), «The Long Goodbye» (1972), «California Split» (1973), «Nashville» (1975), «3 Women» (1977), «Vincent & Theo» (1990), «The Player» (1992), «Short Cuts» (1993), «Kansas City» (1996), «Gosford Park» (2001) and «A Prairie Home Companion» (2006).

This movie presents a fictitious story revolving around the real radio show A Prairie Home Companion.

Tune - in to the DVD release of A Prairie Home Companion and you'll hear a commentary by director Robert Altman and actor Kevin Kline, as well as see some deleted scenes (with optional commentary).

8:00 pm — Sundance — A Prairie Home Companion 2006 USA.

A Priairie Home Companion is actually broadcast each week on National Public Radio in the United States.

(This doesn't take much acting on his part, as he really is the voice of A Prairie Home Companion, as well as the author of the story and screenplay for this film.)

After decades of listening to A Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio, loyal fans of the show should be thrilled to see their friend, philosopher, and host Garrison Keillor appearing larger than life on the silver screen.

Movies That Mattered: Flags of Our Fathers by Paul Arthur, United 93 by Kent Jones, The Departed / Borat by Gavin Smith, Neil Young: Heart of Gold / A Prairie Home Companion by Kent Jones, Old Joy / Mutual Appreciation by Gavin Smith, Superman Returns / Apocalypto by Nathan Lee, Kent Jones & Paul Arthur, An Inconvenient Truth by Harlan Jacobson & Paul Arthur

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Film Reviews: Kansas City by Karen Jaehne Partial Filmography: Cookie's Fortune Kansas City A Prairie Home Companion

Originally formed by Bill Pohlad in 1987, River Road's previous pictures include Doug Liman's Fair Game starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, Robert Kenner's documentary Food, Inc., Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and Lust / Caution, Sean Penn's Into the Wild, and Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.

In the next four years, Woody would appear in over a dozen projects, ranging from «A Prairie Home Companion» to «A Scanner Darkly» and as Carson Wells in the Best Picture «No Country for Old Men.»

She's done it, beautifully, in a number of movies (among them: «Into the Woods,» «A Prairie Home Companion,» «Ricki and the Flash,» «Postcards from the Edge»).

Other River Road films include Sean Penn's Into the Wild; Doug Liman's Fair Game; Robert Kenner's documentary FOOD, INC.; Ang Lee's Lust, Caution; and Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.

Film Reviews: Batman Forever by Eleanor Ringel Double Jeopardy by Debra Lass Men in Black by Richard Schwartz Partial Filmography: Batman Forever Double Jeopardy Men in Black No Country for Old Men A Prairie Home Companion U.S. Marshals

Playing both Annie and Hallie James paved the way for other fun roles in reboots for Lohan — «Freaky Friday» and «Herbie: Fully Loaded» — followed by a slew of compelling performances in «A Prairie Home Companion,» «Bobby,» and, of course, «Mean Girls.»

Film Reviews: The People vs. Larry Flynt by Karen Jaehne The People vs. Larry Flynt by Liza Bear The Sunchaser by Lisa Nesselson The Sunchaser by David Sterritt The Thin Red Line by Thom Bennett Partial Filmography: Anger Management EDtv No Country for Old Men The People vs. Larry Flynt A Prairie Home Companion The Sunchaser The Thin Red Line Welcome to Sarajevo

gave the cinematography award to Carol's Ed Lachman, with whom he worked on Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.