Tag: Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash Once Played a Preacher on ‘Little House on the Prairie’
There hasn’t been another television series quite like Little House on the Prairie. Running for eight seasons (plus an additional sequel season) on NBC through the 1970s and into the early ’80s, Little House was executive produced, often directed by, and starred Michael Landon as the Ingalls family patriarch. Bridging the gap between being a…
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How Johnny Cash’s Life Story Compares to ‘Walk the Line’
In 2005, unless you were already a fan, many people got to first learn and truly discover the fascinating life of Johnny Cash when the James Mangold-directed film Walk the Line was released. What was once pretty much only the knowledge of some great country rock ‘n’ roll songs shifted to an understanding of the…
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On the Ground at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Where Cutting-Edge Cinema Meets a Picturesque Setting
Russell Crowe is standing on a stage, playing an electric guitar. He’s singing “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash, accompanied by a trumpetist, a drummer, someone at a keyboard, another guitarist, and even four backing singers. He starts rocking out to the instrumental section. The crowd, full of Czech film industry insiders, international critics, and…