[PW] Re: Song from Prairie Home Companion Movie

[Bill Davis]

Thanks to all for the prompt and helpful responses.  With the title, I was 
able to find a couple of online audio files of the song (both very rough) 
and an online movie review with this excerpt:

         From    http://www.robinandlinda.com/moviereview4.html

"In this film, as in "Nashville," the actors do their own singing. Some are 
more suited to this than others. Streep, wearing a ruffly dress in her 
performance scenes, reveals a magnificent, powerful singing voice. Reilly 
and Harrelson, the cowboys, spend long hours one afternoon trying bravely 
to master four lines from the 1890s lament "She's More to Be Pitied Than 
Censured":

                 Don't scorn her with words fierce and bitter
                 Do not laugh at her shame and downfall
                 For a moment, just stop and consider
                 That a man was the cause of it all

Rich Dworsky, the bandleader on Keillor's radio show and in this film, 
assists the troubadours, picking out the melody on a piano for Reilly and 
placing his hand in the air at different levels to show Harrelson how the 
harmony goes up and down.

Stubborn progress is achieved. Reilly, who had a number in the film 
"Chicago," is no trained vocalist, but next to Harrelson -- literally next 
to him -- he is Mario Lanza.

That kid with the close-cropped hair, the one who served the pizza to 
Altman, is still sitting next to him. The two are deep in conversation.

An inquiry is made, and the kid turns out to be Paul Thomas Anderson, the 
fireballing young phenom of Hollywood who directed "Magnolia," "Boogie 
Nights" and "Punch-Drunk Love." (He is 35 but looks younger.)

He's not just stopping by to say hi. These days, for Altman, 80, to obtain 
financing for a film, he must designate a standby director who can complete 
the work if necessary. The director's chair where Anderson sits is 
imprinted with the words PINCH HITTER.

Further, he is the companion of Maya Rudolph, who will have their baby this 
fall and whose pregnancy has been written into the script."

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Thanks Again,

Bill Davis






At 04:13 PM 6/21/2006, you wrote:


>In the current movie, PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (2006), there is a scene in
>which Woody Harrellson and John C. Reilly encounter the stage manager (Maya
>Rudolph), who is about to have a child out of wedlock, and sing a song
>about about not passing judgement on fallen women.   I'd like to know more
>about this song.  Whether it was written for the movie or was a
>pre-existing song, the words, etc.    It is not listed in the music for the
>soundtrack on the official movie website.  It was probably listed in the
>credits for the movie, but I didn't have enough time to tell which song I
>was looking for.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill Davis