Johnny Depp

In a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, the High School Musical star, Zac Efron voiced his desire to pick the brains of Hollywood’s elite A-listers - Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp in particular. Seeking advice, he confessed to wanting a sit down session with the men to pick their brains about their early careers and get some advise for where he should head next. He respects them, for having maneuvered well in the industry that’s littered with wrong turns. “They do it because they love it, not because they enjoy being famous.”

He may get his wish, after all. According to recent reports, Efron will be joining the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Further reports suggest that he was actually being groomed as Johnny’s successor (good luck with that, buddy boy!) but it was decided that it wasn’t Pirates without Depp (GOOD CALL DISNEY!), and instead offered Zac a smaller part to join with our Johnny. While the paycheck for Johnny Depp is said to be in the $55 million range, Zac stands to get a cool $6 million, double his HSM earnings, to join the swashbuckling crew.

Zac’s ok. But he’s no Johnny. Just sayin’.

In fact - NO ONE can play an oddball like Depp! So says his partner in crime, director Tim Burton, when he recently reported that Johnny is taking his newest role as the Mad Hatter to heart… or stomach, as he ate part of his costume last week.

“Nobody plays oddballs better than Johnny and he’s loving playing this one,” Tim said. “He actually ate his hat the other day. No word of a lie, he just bit into the brim and chewed.”

He may be weird - but it’s definitely part of his charm, hm?

…tell us something we DON’T know department, Johnny Depp was voted as the sexiest man in the world by the oh so intelligent and always correct UK edition of Cosmopolotan magazine, who further declared that “girls go ga-ga for older fellas”.

[He is not that old. Just sayin.]

Our Johnny beat out fellow forty-ish year olds George Clooney in spot number two, Brad Pitt (5) and Daniel Craig (4) in order to tell the world what we already know. MMMMM YUMMY. The big surprise, apparently is that only three men in their 20s made the top 25 - Jake Gyllenhaal, James McAvoy and Justin Timberlake. So who’s the oldest on the list then? Pierce Brosnan, who is ever the suave gentleman though he’s in his 50s.

Says Lizzi Hosking of Cosmopolitan “Both George Clooney and Johnny Depp just keep getting better with age.”

Ya don’t say…. (grin) You can see the full results in the November issue of the UK Cosmopolitan which goes on sale today. And here’s a list of the top 25:

1 Johnny Depp, 45
2 George Clooney, 47
3 Jake Gyllenhaal, 27
4 Daniel Craig, 40
5 Brad Pitt, 44
6 James McAvoy, 29
7 JustinTimberlake, 27
8 Will Smith, 40
9 David Beckham, 33
10 Wentworth Miller, 36
11 Christian Bale, 34
12 Jonathan Rhys Meyers, 31
13 Take That: Gary Brlow, 37, Mark Owen, 36, Howard Donald, 40 and Jason Orange, 38
14 Ashton Kutcher, 30
15 Dermot O’Leary, 35
16 David Tennant, 37
17 Patrick Dempsey, 42
18 Clive Owen, 44
19 Pierce Brosnan, 55
20 Mark Ronson, 33
21 Gordon Ramsay, 41
22 Russell Brand, 33
23 Pharrell Williams, 35
24 Ryan Reynolds, 31
25 Olivier Martinez, 42

Oh my but there are a lot of good looking men on that there list! But we could have told them that no one beats Johnny, had they just asked us about the lives and loves of our secret husband, hm?

Oh how I wish I was in florida last night to behold a rocking sweaty Johnny Depp in person! As I mentioned before, Johnny reunited with his old band, The Kids, for a benefit concert in Pompano beach, FL. last night. It was reported that he played a 90 minute set with his bandmates. The Kids are a power-pop group that formed in 1978, when Depp was in high school in South Florida.

He wasn’t alone, either - Long time girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, and their daughter, 9 year old Lily-Rose sat together in the box seats as Depp smiled up at them from the stage. (Johnny’s 6 year old son, Jack, wasn’t in attendance.)

This is the second time that Johnny and The Kids have reunited for these functions, held in honor of their late manager, Sheila Witkin. Last year, the proceeds were donated to the Dan Marino Foundation - which funds programs for kids with special needs. Earlier, Johnny posed with Marino and fans.

Onstage, Johnny was his typical fashion forward/backward self, with a blue hole-y tshirt, torn jeans and a flannel shirt around his waist. He blended in with his fellow band members, playing lead guitar and singing background on their original tunes. They also covered classices, like the Ronettes ‘Be My Baby’.

The paparazzi and professional photographers aren’t the only ones with photo’s of the event - Lily-Rose took pictures with a disposable camera while she cheered daddy on from the stands during his performance.

So he plays guitar, sings, acts, and is sexy as hell, as well as a hella nice guy. They broke the mold, with our Johnny, didn’t they?

In this week’s Friday Film, I’m featuring the great video from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Into The Great Wide Open. The video features Johnny in the role of Eddie Rebel. It’s about a young man who goes to Hollywood and becomes a rock star, but falls victim to all of Hollywood’s excesses, and is unable to handle the pressure. I loved this song, and the video!

Along with Johnny and Tom Petty, the video also features Gabrielle Anwar as Eddie’s girlfriend, and Faye Dunaway as Eddie’s agent. I’ve always been a huge fan of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

It’s a great opportunity to see Johnny onstage playing guitar! If you haven’t seen this video before or, at least, not for a long time-feast your eyes and ears!

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There’s a lot of great sites on Johnny Depp around the web. Today, I want to point you in the direction of some of those sites, and tell you about just a few of the things they have to offer.

Johnny Depp Web-They have a great page called fan central, where they list members from all around the world! You can make friends with other Johnny fans from 155 different countries. They choose a “Fan of the Month” each month and also offer fan art.

Depp Impact is one of the Johnny sites which has been around the longest. It has tons to offer-including photo galleries of every one of Johnny’s movies (as well as other photos), a great news section with all the up-to-the-minute Johnny news, and a great schedule of Johnny appearances on TV. It also does some charity work and, at the moment, is helping collect donations to save families’ homes from foreclosure. Check out this site!

Deep Into Depp has a great live chat room, a TV schedule, good article archives, and lots more on Johnny. But this site is worth looking at just for the artwork and writing by Johnny that it features.

Johnny Depp Links is just what it sounds like-a huge page of nothing but links to sites featuring Johnny! There’s links to movie sites, chat rooms, fan pages, forums, clubs-just about anything you could want to look at concerning Johnny. If you’re looking for something in particular about Johnny, try this first.

Depptation and Depprived are two of the many forums dedicated to Johnny. You can discuss his movie roles, various characters, share fan art and fanfiction with others and, essentially talk about anything Johnny-related.

These are just a few of the MANY great sites on Johnny Depp that are out there. Try some of them out, and share your obsession!

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I’m starting a new feature today called “Friday Film.” On Fridays, from now on, I’ll be featuring video clips of Johnny-interviews, film clips, even some made of clips set to music. There’s so much good film of Johnny out there, and I thought it would be great to share some with you.

I’m starting off with Part I of an interview with David Letterman, which aired on “Late Night” July 27, 2006. In this first part, Johnny talks with Dave about how studio executives first felt about his portrayl of Captain Jack Sparrow. There’s also a very funny story about his defacing a billboard of himself from his “21 Jump Street” days. And, as usual, his clothes are unusual and uniquely Johnny! Hope you enjoy!

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Canada.com has published the results of an online survey by Grohe, a manufacturer of bath, shower, and kitchen products. The survey reveals just what Americans and Canadians do while in the shower.

In addition to singing, people admit that they’ve made some of the biggest decisions of their lives while soaping up-things like moving, changing jobs, getting married or divorced, having kids, etc. North Americans report multi-tasking, such as having sex in the shower, or cleaning the shower while they’re cleaning themselves! Now, if only we could get those two groups together!

Then, the discussion gets around to the celebs we’d most like to have in the shower with us! Naturally, Johnny tops the list of males, along with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Favorite females were Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba, and Pamela Anderson.

Now, I could go along with having Johnny in my shower-and not just ’cause my back needs scrubbing! How about the rest of you out there?

(Apologies and all due respect to Vanessa Paradis!)

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