FILE: In this photo taken Saturday, July 4, 2009, Andra Suchy and Garrison Keillor sing "Side by Side" during the 35th anniversary broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" in Avon, Minn. Keillor's public radio variety show debuted on July 6, 1974, with about a dozen people in the audience.
FILE - In this April 13, 2007 file photo, Garrison Keillor laughs during a live audience dress rehearsal of a skit for "A Prairie Home Companion" at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn.
FILE: Garrison Keillor, right, and Prudence Johnson, left, perform a duet during a live audience dress rehearsal for "A Prairie Home Companion" at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., Friday, April 13, 2007.
FILE: Radio show host Garrison Keillor resumes work in his Prairie Home Productions office in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, September 16, 2009. After suffering a mild stroke, Keillor is going ahead with his popular "A Prairie Home Companion" season as planned.
FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2009, file photo, radio show host Garrison Keillor speaks in his Prairie Home Productions office in St. Paul, Minn. Keillor kicks off his 26-city "Radio Romance Tour" July 8 in Spokane, Wash. The shows will offer more than two hours of duet singing, plus Keillor's Guy Noir Private Eye, poetry and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
FILE: Wearing his signature red shoes, radio show host Garrison Keillor resumes work in his Prairie Home Productions office in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, September 16, 2009. After suffering a mild stroke, Keillor is going ahead with his popular "A Prairie Home Companion" season as planned.
FILE: Books are highlighted as author and radio show host Garrison Keillor announces the finalists for the National Book Awards during a ceremony Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004 in St. Paul, Minn. The winners in each of four categories--young people's literature, nonfiction, poetry and fiction--will be named at a dinner Nov. 17 in New York.
FILE: Humorist Garrison Keillor interviews Anneka Heise at the Iowa State Fair, as part of a 4-H Celebrity Judging event, Sunday August 14, 2005 in Des Moines, Iowa.
**FILE** Garrison Keillor attends the National Book Awards in New York, on Nov 17, 2004. Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" is looking for a new home. Keillor said the show will leave the Fitzgerald Theater, which Minnesota Public Radio bought for the show in 1980. "We have no plans to do the Fitz after Jan. 1 in the current season," Keillor said Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2005.
FILE: Director Robert Altman, left, and radio personality Garrison Kiellor pose Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Altman and Keillor sat down to discuss their oddball movie, a solid theatrical mini-hit that debuts on DVD.
FILE: In this photo provided by New Line Home Entertainment, screen writer and actor Garrison Keillor, left, and director Robert Altman celebrate the DVD release of the film A Prairie Home Companion, on DVD from New Line Home Entertainment, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006 in New York. The reception and panel discussion was held at The Museum of Television & Radio in New York City.
FILE: Radio broadcaster Garrison Keillor, center stands with his daughter, Maia Grace, and director Robert Altman and Altman's wife, Kathryn Reed, obscured by a photographer, before walking the red carpet outside the Fitzgerald Theater Wednesday, May 3, 2006, in St. Paul, Minn., for the world premiere of the movie "A Prairie Home Companion," which was filmed in St. Paul last summer.
FILE: Host Garrison Keillor, left, hangs out with his daughter Maia and signs autographs for fans Robin Eddie, Anita Ramp and Van Vliet Saturday April 14, 2007 backstage at the Fitgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul, Minn. after the live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion."
FILE: Radio show host Garrison Keillor gives a speech at the DakotaDome at the University of South Dakota, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005, in Vermillion, S.D.
FILE: United States Radio show master Garrison Keillor during his radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" in the "Wuehlmaeuse" theatre in Berlin Saturday, March 3, 2001. It is the first time that Keillor performed his show in Germany.
**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JULY 31 AUG 1** Garrison Keillor discussed his book, "Homegrown Democrat:A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America" at Bound to Be Read, a St. Paul , Minn. bookstore, on Friday, July 23, 2004. Afterward, he signed copies of his new book, which decribes why he became a Democrat.
FILE: This promotional photo, provided by PBS, shows Garrison Keillor of "A Prairie Home Companion," who will host a live New Years Eve broadcast from Nashvilles Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
FILE: Garrison Keillor does "News From Lake Wobegon" during a live audience dress rehearsal for "A Prairie Home Companion" in front of an audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., Friday, April 13, 2007.
FILE: Garrison Keillor, left, and broadcast engineer Thomas Scheuzger, right, look over the script during rehearsal for "A Prairie Home Companion" at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., Friday, April 13, 2007.
FILE: Garrison Keillor rehearses for "A Prairie Home Companion" at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., Friday, April 13, 2007.
FILE: Writer Garrison Keillor poses near the entryway of his St. Paul, Minn., home Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003. In his new book "Love Me," Keillor abandons his fictional hometown of Lake Wobegon for a funny, sometimes racy story that he says is about 15 percent autobiographical.
FILE: US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert, R-Il., left, share in a toast as radio talkshow host Garrison Keillor stands at right during the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 1999. President Clinton, who was a guest speaker, told many jokes that poked fun at his troubles this past year.
FILE: Radio personality Garrison Keillor in the Senate Subway on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2010.
FILE: Author and folksy radio personality Garrison Keillor is seen, 1988.
FILE: Director Robert Altman, left, and radio personality Garrison Kiellor pose Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Altman and Keillor sat down to discuss their oddball movie, "A Prairie Home Companion," a solid theatrical mini-hit that debuts on DVD.
FILE: **ADVANCE FOR TUESDAY SEPT. 16** In this photo released by Prairie Home Productions shows Garrison Keillor author of "Liberty.”
FILE: Humorist Garrison Keillor steps up to the mike at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, Illinois. Keillor's hugely popular radio program, 'A Prairie Home Companion,' has remained largely unchanged since he launched the show in 1974. 'I think changing the format at this point would be a confession of boredom or a lack of imagination,' says Keillor, whose show relies on a trademark arrangement of skits, music and stories. 'It's not an issue of drawing up better plays, but of execution.'
FILE: Garrison Keillor, host of the popular National Public Radio show 'A Praire Home Companion', broadcast his program live from the Starlight Theater Saturday evening. Keillor ended his season and his road tour in front of a packed house.
FILE: Radio personality, author, and humorist Garrison Keillor laughs during an interview at his office in St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 21, 1997. Twelve years ago, Keillor hit the top of the best-seller list with his book "Lake Wobegon Days," based on his popular radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion." Now he returns to his roots with a follow-up novel, "Wobegon Boy."
FILE: ** Garrison Keillor, author and radio personality, poses near the entryway of his St. Paul, Minn., home, Aug. 5, 2003. In his new book, "Love Me," Keillor abandons his fictional hometown of Lake Wobegon for a funny, sometimes racy story that he says is "about 15 percent autobiographical, same as most novels."
FILE: Garrison Keillor, author and chronicler of the fictitious Lake Wobegone, Minn., poses for a photo in his office in St. Paul, Minn., March 2, 1999. Keillor's latest volumn, 'Me, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, as told to Garrison Keillor,' pokes some satirical fun at Minnesota's new governor, ex-wrestler Jesse (the Body) Ventura.
FILE - Garrison Keillor, Shown in this Nov. 17 1989 file photo, has struck few fans the way he struck Ben Ellingson during a live radio show 19 years ago. Keillor recalled how he celebrated the first year of ``A Prairie Home Companion'' by uncorking a bottle of champagne on stage. The cork shot over the heads of the audience and hit Ellingson, then 4, in the forehead as he sat with his parents. Keillor brought Ellingson, now 23, on stage during the show's 20th anniversary broadcast Saturday Oct. 29 1994 at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Keillor said uncorking the champagne was ``the dumbest thing anybody ever did on a stage.''
FILE: Garrison Keillor, the best-selling author and former host of public radio's "A Prarie Home Campanion", poses outside the New York Public Library on December 27, 1987. Keillor, a 45 year old Minnesota native who made Lake Wobegon into the quintessential small town, is now one of Manhattan's newest residents. "I'm very high on New York," says Keillor.
FILE: Garrison Keillor is shown during an interview in New York on Nov. 17, 1989.
FILE: Garrison Keillor leads a group of children, first graders who will members of the Class of 2000, in singing the National Anthem at the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, July 18, 1988. Some of the children did not appear to have the same enthusiasm as Keillor.
FILE: Humorist Garrison Keillor is shown at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago on Sunday, Nov. 6, 1994, at a reception prior to being inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Keillor, the creator and host of 'The Prairie Home Companion' was inducted along with Los Angeles radio personality Gary Owens, comic genius Red Skelton, the 'Burns and Allen Show', and the late Gordon McClendon radio format innovator and owner of station KLIF in Dallas.
FILE: Radio personality Garrison Keillor speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on October 21, 1987. Keillor, who gave up his "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show last June, says he misses singing songs with people who know the words.
FILE: Humorist Garrison Keillor, host of the radio show Prairie Home Companion, and author of the best selling-book, Lake Wobegon Days, pauses speaking at the noon luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, May 23, 1986. Lake Wobegon is the mythical town of which he talks about in his weekly radio show.
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FILE: Garrison Keillor runs through material for the upcoming 10th anniversary edition of the Prairie Home Companion radio show, July 6, 1984 in St. Paul. Keillors live 2-hour show each Saturday is broadcast by National Public Radio and is carried by 218 stations.
FILE: Radio host Garrison Keillor gestures to his audience during the first show in the newly remodeled World Theatre in St. Paul, Jan. 11, 1986. The show has had temporary homes for the past two years while the renovation of the theatre took place.
FILE: American author and radio star Garrison Keillor married Danish Ulla Skaerved at Holte Church north of Copenhagen, Dec. 29, 1985. They first met in Anoka high school Minnesota in 1960 when they were classmates. At a high school reunion last August they met again and married.
FILE: Radio host Garrison Keillor conducts the audience in a sing-along version of "Tell Me Why" during the performance of the last 'Prarie Home Companion" radio show in St.Paul, Minn., June 13, 1987. Keillor plans to move to Denmark where he will do more writing..
FILE: Author and humorist Garrison Keillor of New York City testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts Humanities at Capitol Hill in Washington, March 29, 1990. Keillor testified in support of National Endowment for the Arts.
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