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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
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by Thomas L. Friedman
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05/29/2006
Robert Altman, Garrison Keillor
A conversation about "A Prairie Home Companion" with guest host Peter Travers
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Guest host Peter Travers talks with radio personality Garrison Keillor and director Robert Altman about their movie "A Prairie Home Companion". The film is based on Keillor's hit radio program and stars an ensemble cast including Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin.
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor is a prolific author with over 100 written or recorded works. He is also a storyteller, performance artist, radio host and comedian. He published eleven books, including three books for children.
Keillor began his broadcasting career while a student at the University of Minnesota on the student-operated radio station, named Radio K. In 1969 he began writing for ?The New Yorker?. On July 6, 1974 he started "A Prairie Home Companion" in a St. Paul college theatre before an audience of twelve people. In 1987, he moved to New York where, in 1989, he started "The American Radio Company", which after four seasons returned to the name "A Prairie Home Companion" in 1993, and is again based in Minnesota. From 1996-2001 Keillor authored an advice column, titled "Mr. Blue", on Salon.com. He resigned after having a heart surgery in 2001. Since June of 2005 Garrison Keillor has been a syndicated newspaper columnist at Salon.com.
Source - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445087/bio
Garrison Keillor is a prolific author with over 100 written or recorded works. He is also a storyteller, performance artist, radio host and comedian. He published eleven books, including three books for children.
Keillor began his broadcasting career while a student at the University of Minnesota on the student-operated radio station, named Radio K. In 1969 he began writing for ?The New Yorker?. On July 6, 1974 he started "A Prairie Home Companion" in a St. Paul college theatre before an audience of twelve people. In 1987, he moved to New York where, in 1989, he started "The American Radio Company", which after four seasons returned to the name "A Prairie Home Companion" in 1993, and is again based in Minnesota. From 1996-2001 Keillor authored an advice column, titled "Mr. Blue", on Salon.com. He resigned after having a heart surgery in 2001. Since June of 2005 Garrison Keillor has been a syndicated newspaper columnist at Salon.com.
Source - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445087/bio
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