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...back room, Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is staring at a table saw. On this day, he will record his hit album, “At Folsom Prison.” Before the show, though, we need to know how he got there.James Mangold’s Cash biopic, “Walk the Line”—in the works for almost 10 years—is adapted from the Man in Black’s own autobiographies and a series of interviews with him and his second wife, June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). The film follows the singer?...
...film to be authentic, the actors needed to play and sing, not rely on looped music. "With all due respect, I don't think of Natalie Wood's performance in West Side Story as one of the hallmarks of musical cinema," says Mangold. (As for Ray, 2004's biopic about a drug-addicted music legend from the South, which used looping, Mangold says, "I don't think I want to go there.") Phoenix, who had no musical background, figured he would learn to play the same way Cash did, without formal lessons. He bought a guitar and asked a friend...
...Unlike his elder Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven does not hold the honor of having a Literature and Arts-B core course named after him. But he will soon be featured in a Hollywood biopic starring Ed Harris. And today, at 6:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church on 3 Church Street, Morris will seek to bring the long-dead Beethoven to life...
...foot-in-mouth University President will have a partner to help him temper his sharp and unruly tongue. Because it’s my job to worry about stuff like this, I started wondering: if Ron Howard did an “A Beautiful Mind”-style biopic on their relationship, who would play the loose-chinned economist and his poetry-reading lady love...
...course, Scofield himself is such a captivating presence that this promises to be a great night for jazz. Get those tickets quick, though; with the success of Jamie Foxx’s biopic role, Ray Charles’ music seems to be quite in demand these days...