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This Weeks Reviews: Walk The Line As James Mangold's cinematic testament to Johnny Cash and June Carter would tell it, their legendary love led a fevered life in the spotlight for years before June finally consented to marry Johnny. She said Johnny had two personalities, the sober man she called "John" and the wild man she called "Cash." But the movie shows that long before he was wild, the boy Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) idolized June Carter (Reese Witherspoon) from the time she was a 10-year-old, singing on the radio. We see Johnny with his ear next to the radio, and his angry, often-drunk father hollering at him through the wall to turn the damn thing off. Later Johnny is an Air Force radio operator in West Germany, looking at pictures of June in a magazine. His fever for her burned quietly for years, and then they met. Read more... Bee Season It's too bad that Richard Gere, here playing Saul Naumann, a college professor and scholar of the Jewish mysticism known as Kaballah, fails the credibility test. We just don't believe Saul is obsessed with the esoteric knowledge of God. He's too worldly, too wealthy to be an authentic seeker. He dresses in designer label clothing; lives in a spotless, elegant home in the fashionable hills of Los Angeles; drives a spiffy, little red convertible. Saul may be interested in the struggle to find meaning in everyday life, as many are, but driven crazy by it? Probably not. Read more...
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