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I had the strange experience of watching both "Ray" and "Walk The Line" within a month of each other. The similarities between the movies and the biographies of both musicians are overwhelming.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Both men...

• were born in the early 1930's
• were born in the South
• were dirt poor as children
• shared guilt over the death of their brothers
  
• were inspired by gospel music
  
• started their careers in small independent recording studios
  
• took on a drug habit to cope with being on the road
• were considered controversial
  
• cheated on their wives while on the road
• went to prison for bringing drugs across the border on a plane
• tried to make their wives happy by buying them progressively larger houses
  
• moved to a nice house in California
• always wore dark sunglasses
  
• went through painful sweaty rehabs and hallucinated seeing their dead brothers
  
• died within 9 months of each other

Spooky, eh?

Arnold started off with huge popularity after Gray Davis's witch hunt. Then, after a few years of offending women, minorities, and every public employee of the state the Hollywood aura started to fade.

And to top it off, even though everyone warned him, he ended up costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars because of a fruitless special election.

Maybe we should have elected someone with political experience?