Line i missed the first time around, #23794
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Album:prairie home companion movie st
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Track:frankie and johnny
If you haven't seen the film based on the radio show *A Prairie Home Companion*, alli can say is that if you're a fan of the program, or a fan or Robert Altman films, you opught to see the *PHC* movie.Meryl Streep plays the mother of Lindsay Lohan, one of the two surviving members of a Carter/Stoneman Family type family act (Lily Tomlin is the other surviver). Lohan's character rejects the whole cornball country/populist image of her mother's family and of the *PHC* program.But, when the show runs short, she gets shoved onstage to fill time... and the only song she knows nearly well enough to sing is *Frankie and Johnny*. Notice i said "nearly"? She has to vamp and improvise, just as she has to improvise a last-minute stage outfit out of a pink cowboy hat and a shawl to more-or-less cover up her goth t-shirt.
However, you may ask, does the title of this post come from?Well, i just listened to that track for the first time since i saw the film the day it opened back in December, and i caught a line that i hadn't caught before.Some people have complained that Keillor and Altman went with slightly "blue" humour more than one might expect - singing cowboys Dusty and Leftie's song *Bad Jokes* has been singled out.But i think someone slipped a quick one into Lohan's lyrics about a cheating boyfriend and a vengeful girl, who shoots him when she catches him in a hotel room with another girl.What do you think?
However, you may ask, does the title of this post come from?Well, i just listened to that track for the first time since i saw the film the day it opened back in December, and i caught a line that i hadn't caught before.Some people have complained that Keillor and Altman went with slightly "blue" humour more than one might expect - singing cowboys Dusty and Leftie's song *Bad Jokes* has been singled out.But i think someone slipped a quick one into Lohan's lyrics about a cheating boyfriend and a vengeful girl, who shoots him when she catches him in a hotel room with another girl.What do you think?
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