Celebrity news, gossip, photos

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2009 enter photo, broadcasting exhibit patron emancipationist Keillor resumes work in his Prairie Home Productions duty in St. Paul, Minn. Keillor plans to keep moving tales of Lake Wobegon's Norwegian knight farmers for at least a pair more years, but the patron and creator of open radio's 'A Prairie Home Companion' is descending more hints that his withdrawal haw be on the horizon. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter, file)Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS - emancipationist Keillor plans to keep moving tales of Lake Wobegon's Norwegian knight farmers for at least a pair more years, but the patron and creator of open radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" is descending more hints that his withdrawal haw be on the horizon.

In an discourse posted weekday on the AARP Bulletin's website, the 68-year-old Keillor said he plans to fling in the spring of 2013. But Keillor said he prototypal has to find his replacement.

"I'm pushing forward, and also I'm in denial. It's an engrossing instance of life," Keillor told the publication.

Keillor told The Associated Press in a follow-up e-mail weekday that he'll be 70 in the spring of 2013, "and that seems same a nice ammo number."

"The think to fling is to essay to refrain embarrassment; you ought to do it before grouping are descending bounteous hints. You want to be the prototypal to become up with the idea. You don't want to move until you trip and fall soured the stage," Keillor told the AP.

For the prototypal instance this season, "A Prairie Home Companion" had a temporary patron on Jan. 15, when singer and player Sara Watkins of the band Nickel Creek hosted the exhibit from St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater, with Keillor attending as a featured guest. Keillor said at the instance that he had never gotten to see the exhibit himself and wanted "to defence in the back of the hall and check for a some minutes."

Keillor has ruminated before about retirement. In 1987, he astonied his fans by quitting "A Prairie Home Companion." But he returned to the airwaves two eld after with a newborn touring show, "American Radio Company of the Air," and a some eld after that he returned to St. Paul and reclaimed "A Prairie Home Companion" as the study of his variety show.

In 2009, Keillor suffered a minor attack but was back on expose three weeks later. He created "A Prairie Home Companion" in 1974 and famous the show's 35th day in 2009 with a exhibit in central Minnesota's Stearns County, which inspired Keillor's mythical hometown of Lake Wobegon — "where every the women are strong, every the men are good-looking and every the children are above average." The exhibit is now programme on nearly 600 open broadcasting stations and heard by more than 4 million grouping apiece week.

___

Online:

AARP Bulletin: http://www.aarp.org/bulletin

A Prairie Home Companion: http://www.PrairieHome.org

Source