Jewel becomes June
Matt Ross ("American Horror Story") will play Johnny Cash, Carter Cash's husband. The film is based on the memoir "Anchored In Love: An Intimate Portrait Of June Carter Cash" by Carter Cash's son John Carter Cash. Allison Anders will direct with filming this summer in Atlanta for a premiere later this year. Steven Michaels, Jonathan Koch and John Carter Cash are executive producing.
The movie follows June from early childhood growing up in the rural Virginia to her turbulent yet enduring relationship with Cash, who was her third husband.
The Cashes were the subject of another movie, "Walk the Line." Reese Witherspoon portrayed Jane Carter in the 2005 movie, taking an Oscar for her performance. Joaquin Phoenix played Johnny Cash.
Jewel, now working as a country artist after starting in pop, will make her first major acting role with this movie. She had small roles in Ang Lee's "Ride With The Devil" and Jake Kasdan's "Walk Hard."
More news for Jewel
- 03/14/11: Jewel escapes injury in accident
- 01/11/11: Jewel is pregnant
- 04/07/10: Jewel plans acoustic tour
- 03/31/10: Jewel performs benefits for Project Clean Water
- 09/25/09: Jewel starts African water project
- 07/16/09: Jewel dreams on
- 03/06/09: Jewel won't be Dancing With the Stars
- 02/08/09: Chuck Wicks, Jewel ready to begin Dancing With the Stars
CD reviews for Jewel
"The worst crime a person can commit is to be boring," sings Jewel in "Plain Jane," a track on "Picking Up the Pieces," her 12th album. Thanks to her origin story, no jury could ever convict her of such an atrocity.
In her childhood, Jewel Kilcher's father brought her with him to perform in bars. By 15, she was living on her own in a cabin and riding a horse to multiple jobs. A year later, she busked her way across the country, into Mexico and back as she wrote ...
Jewel's latest offering sounds pretty good (it comes with both acoustic and electric versions), but it's certainly more pop than country - most of the songs are fast-paced, and there's nary a dulcimer, fiddle or steel guitar to be found. But that fact notwithstanding, there are still a couple of tear-jerker songs here that would make even Hank Williams himself cry. Take, for example, the deeply melancholy Bad As It Gets, the enigmatic and powerful Fading or What You Are, a song ...
The charge of opportunism could be laid at Jewel's door. "Perfectly Clear" comes after the disappointing sales of her previous CD, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland" (her first album not to go gold.) And she's flirted with different genres in the past, as on the "modern big band" sound of "0304." On the other hand, it may be that Jewel's always been at least - like another famous Utah-born singer - a little bit country.
And it may not matter ...
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