This weekend's "Prairie Home Companion" on American Public Media was taped live last night at the Hollywood Bowl. Meryl Streep, John C. Reilly and Virginia Madsen make stage appearances, and Garrison Keillor gets off a line about California being so absorbed with the southern border right now that he was able to slip in from the east.
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