The last radio show
Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion is such a deconstructionist’s dream that you almost expect the late Jacques Derrida to make a cameo appearance. Talk about reality’s insubstantiality: here we have the cinematic version of a beloved radio program, now over three decades old, whose sly conceits play on a homespun America that barely existed. “Real people” (Garrison Keillor, playing “G. K.,” an addle-patted caricature of his radio persona) cavort on the actual stage of St.