Johnny Cash walked into the rockabilly scene sideways, almost by accident, yet has become the early rock�n�roll figure most admired by generations unconceived during the 1950s and �60s. Joaquin Phoenix stepped into a set of myth-size shoes when he took the role of Cash in the 2005 film Walk theLine (out now on Blu-ray). With his hard, fathomless eyes and stolid, chiseled face, Phoenix...

Count me in the "Joaquin Phoenix was faking it" camp. Though Phoenix convincingly displayed the eerily detached, flat affect of a patient in the early stages of schizophrenia, he hid behind the same thick, black sunglasses as so many bluffing poker players. Phoenix's instantly infamous "Late Night" interview probably struck a chord with entertainment writers all over, though, conjuring ...