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The True Hollywood Story of a Band Apart Co-Founder Michael Bodnarchek "Reservoir Dog Days"By Peter S. ScholtesThe high point of Michael Bodnarchek's professional life, he says, was meeting and getting to know Johnny Cash. The St. Paul-born Hollywood producer of music videos and commercials found himself on a flight to Minneapolis seated next to the Man in Black in first class one day in 1996, though the executive didn't recognize the musician at first. Bodnarchek may have been distracted. He hates flying, and for years he had traveled in his own Madden Cruiser-style Lincoln Navigator to avoid setting foot on a plane, crisscrossing the continent with one of those first-generation, giant, military-style satellite phones. By 2000, the demands of international success had forced him to rack up 100,000 airline miles a year, and he had started taking medication for the anxiety.On this '96 flight, however, the white-haired man beside him at last turned and said, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," and Bodnarchek sank into his seat. The younger passenger had grown up in east St. Paul loving Cash. He told the singer that he was on his way home, and brought up his production company back in L.A., A Band Apart.Cash pulled out a script, according to Bodnarchek, and said, "This is about me, and it's called Walk the Line. Johnny Depp's attached. Would you be interested in working with us on it?"Bodnarchek had co-founded A Band Apart Commercials in the summer of 1995 with celebrated director Quentin Tarantino and producer Lawrence Bender, but his specialty was TV ads, not motion pictures. He kept Johnny Cash in mind a few weeks later in L.A., however, pitching the idea of using him in a Nissan ad.....Read the rest of the story
