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The slow pace of a lightning fast shoot
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio
July 28, 2005


Garrison Keillor wrote the screenplay for the Prairie Home Campanion film. He also stars in the fictionalized story of a weekly radio variety show doing its final broadcast. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

St Paul's current brush with Hollywood ends today as filming wraps up on the 'Prairie Home Companion' movie. For the last month famed director Robert Altman and a star-studded cast have been shooting a fictionalized version of Garrison Keillor's weekly show.



Robert Altman

St. Paul, Minn. � Time moves differently on a movie set. The crew on the A Prairie Home Companion movie say shooting has been moving at lightning speed. In fact they'll finish two days ahead of schedule.
But that doesn't mean things really happen fast.
It's about 11:30 in the morning. Dozens of people are on hand at the Fitzgerald theater, waiting for the crew to get set up for the first shot of the day. Tim Russell is one of them. He's a well known voice to Prairie Home fans"

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