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Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - Chakravartin - 03-17-2011
Two years in advance. Thanks for the notice!
Via AARP & AP:
http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/newsmakers/info-03-2011/garrison-keillor-announces-retirement.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iH4SIEkjzHsSGFEwjfWGM1Si1U-w?docId=f1dfbe0bc0bc4d43b72db9623365a9c4
Radio host Garrison Keillor, 68, told the AARP Bulletin that he's planning to retire in the spring of 2013. But the host of A Prairie Home Companion says that he must find his replacement first. Keillor created his show in 1974 in Minnesota. It is now broadcast on 590 public radio stations across the country and is heard by over 4 million people each week...
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - pRICE cUBE - 03-17-2011
It was great driving the vast expanses of rural Utah listening to the show. To bad he can't do it forever.
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - M>B> - 03-17-2011
He will live for ever on You Tube!
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - Will Collier - 03-17-2011
Good riddance. A pompous bore, and according to his neighbors, quite a jerk.
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - graylocks - 03-17-2011
i am a die hard NPR listener. over the years i've caught some bits i have to admit are funny but overall, i really can't stand APHC. i avoid saturday evenings on NPR like the plague.
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - blooz - 03-17-2011
I spent years listening to PHC when I had steady girlfriends, but haven't enjoyed listening to it lately. Kind of same-old same-old.
Still, it was a good run.
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - chopper - 03-17-2011
In Minnesota we call him by his given name --Gary. He changed it after the winter in the farmhouse in Zumbrota or wherever it was.
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - Blankity Blank - 03-17-2011
APHC is great stuff. More wit and charm in one show than in an entire season of most network television. Great guests too.
I don't listen as much as I used to; lay that at the feet of the internet, the DVR and what good shows there are on television. One show I try to always catch though is the annual Spring(?) joke show. A must for the aficionado of the groaner and the pun. Keeps me stocked with enough weapons of misconstruction to be the terror of gatherings for the rest of the year.
This isn't the first time Keillor has left the air though. He mothballed APHC back in 1987 and it was a couple of years before he was back on the air, with a show called "American Radio Company of the Air" and a year or two more before he revived APHC.
I will be a touch sad the day I hear, "Powder Milk Biscuits. Good heavens they're tasty." for the last time.
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - rjmacs - 03-17-2011
I have mixed feelings about APHC and Keillor. At once i enjoy some of his wit and gift for storytelling, and find his work thematically problematic. Over the years i've come to hear some deeply icky attitudes toward women in his work, or at least some troubling recurrent gender dynamics. I'm not trying to imply that Keillor is a chauvinist, but there's something thoroughly one-dimensional about nearly all of his female characters. Recently it doesn't take long before this starts to bug me and he loses my interest.
That being said he has some great musical guests and during the George W. Bush administrations he also had some fantastically witty political commentary as well. He adeptly straddled the line of being a dyed-in-the-wool liberal in an increasingly conservative America without being mean-spirited or personally disparaging toward his political opposites.
Re: Garrison Keillor Announces Retirement - Dennis S - 03-17-2011
I played music on his show once and it was exhilarating being involved in the live action where something could go wrong but almost never did. Even if someone messed up. the crowd was so good that it would have been OK.
The band was great and could play anything, especially Rich Dworsky. When I met Garrison, it was almost like there was an electrical charge coming out of his huge head.
I would think that the show will go more in a musical direction when he leaves. After all, it started when he was at the Grand Ol' Opry and got the idea for the show. I have a feeling that there will be lots of interaction between the different musical guests.