Charlotte's Web, a live-action adaptation of the popular children's tale of a pig who is saved from death by a kindly spider, may be his best-known work.
Mr. Dylan's previous studio album, "Together Through Life," from 2009, kept a kindly twinkle through most of its songs, which Mr. Dylan wrote with the Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.
The $1 million prize went to Tina Wesson, a slight 40-year-old mother from Tennessee with a kindly manner, a weathered face, a twang in her voice and the ability to project her all-American image with the shrewdness of an experienced public relations expert.
Rescued from obscurity by a kindly producer (Zack Norman), Margie is soon living in luxury and falling for a young actor (a lovely, low-key Justin Kirk), who, in a nice twist on more familiar prejudices, is building his career by pretending to be gay.
Just as her car is about to give out once and for all, she spots an unfinished shack on the outskirts of an Idaho town and swiftly works out a deal to obtain it from its owner, a kindly nursery owner (Soon-Teck Oh).
