Prairie Home Companion

Lola Johnson: This isn't really going to be your last show, is it?
Garrison Keillor: Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.
Rhonda Johnson: Thank you, Plato

Last night I saw one of the best films of the year. A Prairie Home Companion. A movie based on the folksy National Public Radio Show about the mythical Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. I've never been a fan of the radio show, but the movie is really good. It's about a group of people doing a live radio variety, the kind that has disappeared in this age of "everything is Top 40" radio. The group knows it is the last show they will be doing because the theater will be torn down and the radio station sold to a Texas company.

This movie is really funny, sad and full of wonderful music. It features amazing performances by Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Woddy Harrelson and Lindsay Lohan. It is directed by Robert Altman (MASH).

This is the kind of movie you may think you may not like. But believe me, this is the kind of film that makes you feel good about life without being corny about it.

And don't miss the behind the scenes documentary when writer Garrison Keillor talks about happiness: "Happiness is about the details. About the small things. About the specific. Gloominess is about the general."

Brilliant.