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  Johnny Cash thought his recording career was over. Then he met legendary producer Rick Rubin. Together, Nashville’s Man in Black and the co-founder of Def Jam records made a decade’s worth of astonishing albums, culminating with the new American V. But their incongruous partnership, which ended with Cash’s death last fall, was about much more than music.

• When Liz Met Dick

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• The NFL’s Closet Case

  by David Kamp + Follow

  GQ | January 1998

  Dave Kopay reflects on being the first gay football player to come out.