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Johnny Cash
Why Joaquin Phoenix Didn’t Reprise Role in Bob Dylan Biopic
BACK IN BLACKPhoenix scored his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing Johnny Cash in 2005’s “Walk the Line.”
What Ken Burns’ 16-Hour ‘Country Music’ Epic Leaves Out
LISTEN UP!The 16-hour, eight-episode PBS miniseries—debuting on Sept. 15—offers a dazzling primer on country music but stumbles in certain areas, including its problems with race.
Praying Mantis Species Named for RBG
COURT ORDERScientists paid homage to the Supreme Court justice with a species discovered when its females were treated equally.
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Watch: Unreleased Highwaymen Performance
Outlaw CountryKris, Johnny, Waylon & Willie do ‘Desperados Waiting for a Train’ in previously unseen footage.
Dem Brings in Country ‘Cash’
CAMPAIGN CASHWannabe senator Rick Weiland of South Dakota channels The Man in Black in a new campaign video.
Johnny Cash’s Lost LP
Posthumous<p><i>Out Among the Stars</i> isn’t a bottom-of-the-barrel hodgepodge assembled by Cash’s heirs to keep the family coffers full—it’s an ‘endeavor of the heart’ by Cash’s son.<br> </p>
The New Year’s Big Culture Moments
Get ExcitedThere’s a lot to be stoked about in pop culture this year. From ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ to ‘Inherent Vice’ and ‘Divergent,’ here’s what we can’t wait for.
The Week’s Best Reads
LongreadsFrom the animal injury epidemic on Hollywood movie sets to Washington’s trouble with the new legal marijuana economy, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.
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