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Five things you didn't know about Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash One of the most anticipated fall films is the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line," It stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black and Reese Witherspoon as his soul mate, the feisty June Carter Cash. Don't expect the movie to reveal all the following facts: 1. When Cash was born in 1932, his parents, who couldn't decide what to name their child, settled on J.R. In 1950, when the Air Force demanded that Cash supply something more than the initials, he named himself "John Ray." 2. Cash was jealous of the attention given to his Sun Records label-mate Elvis Presley. So when he was asked to deliver some Presley records to a promoter, he tossed them off a cliff, one at a time, "like Frisbees." 3. The legendary "Million Dollar Quartet" session, which united Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Cash at the Sun Studios in Memphis in 1956, was actually a trio, as Cash left the studio before the tape started rolling. 4. Cash's first movie role was as a creepy psycho-killer in 1961's "Door-to-Door Maniac" (aka "Five Minutes to Live"). It also featured Opie himself, Ronnie Howard, and Pamela Mason, wife of British actor James Mason. 5. "Ring of Fire," one of Cash's biggest hits, was once considered as a theme for a hemorrhoid-relief commercial. The Cash estate declined. Henry Cabot Beck