Anne continued to say she hopes that she doesn’t faint. “I’m wearing a corset which is difficult enough, but then to have to wear a corset AND be short-breathed around Johnny Depp?” She added that her friends are suddenly really keen on just hanging around the set in hopes of meeting him, and finished up with a “It might be my hardest role to date - to keep my cool.”

We feel for ya, Anne! We’re horribly jealous, but we DO feel for ya!

Recently, they made the list of their first 6 inductees to the Headwear Hall of Fame, and guess who’s on it? None other then our favorite hat wearer, Johnny Depp! Johnny joins Vince Lombardi, Samuel L. Jackson, Princess Diana, Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Madonna in the inaugural batch, where they’re praised for being “current day hat wearers, as well as early influencers, that have had an impact towards the evolution of hat wearing and fashion.”

Well, any award is a good award, hm? Besides, we ALL know we love Johnny in a hat…

Johnny Depp - could we heart him anymore? I think not! What I don’t understand is how folks can honestly hit “not” under that picture - only an 81% hot rating? PUH-LEASE.

Now, the hard part about Watching Johnny Depp is that he’s so often out of sight. Makes things a bit difficult, and he’s been hiding since the beginning of the month, with no real news to speak of - So! I give you some completely random, gratuitous pictures of our favorite hunk! I know. You’re welcome.

Also - check out the new Fanspace community - Johnny Depp Space! They even have a TOOLBAR!

He’s too sweet ‘good ole boy’ looking to be a Pirate anyway. Just sayin’.

However, Russell Brand?

Rawr! Not a too sweet looking boy at all and it seems Disney agrees, as Russell has bee working with Disney to pen a deal that has him playing Depp’s brother in Pirates 4. According to the sources “There couldn’t be a role more prefectly suited. There’s a lot of Jack Sparrow in his mannerisms and behavior.”

And he’s hot. Together with Keith Richards, they make the ultimate pirate family! Too bad we’ll have to wait until 2012 for a release date!

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?

Not digging the hat, so much, but well, we can’t expect perfection all the time, right?

Right.

THIS hat, is much more like it…

Tim Burton spent some time on the phone the other day with Hero Complex writer Geoff Boucher, and gave them the scoop on upcoming projects, including Alice in Wonderland, Johnny and more. Hero Complex put forth the idea that Johnny tends to approach roles like a kid gleefully rummages through a trunk of dress-up clothes, and with a laugh, Burton had to agree. “It’s true. We have a big dress-up trunk here, we take it with us wherever we go!”

When talking about Alice in Wonderland, we’re warned and promised that this version will be different then Disney’s take on weird characters who just sort of wander around. “The goal is to try and make it an engaging movie where you get some of the psychology and kind of bring a freshness, but also keep to the classic nature of ‘Alice’.” He added that he’s excited about this new version, but it will have some of the elements that we expect.

How hard was it to get Johnny Depp to play the Mad Hatter,another enigmatic oddball? Not very! “He loves doing that. That’s NEVER a problem. He doesn’t like to be the same way twice.” Burton added that it’s good, and always keeps it fresh. “[Depp] likes the material we have here, and he gets it. It’s nice to have people involved that are fans of the material.”

As for Dark Shadows - that’s still in the planning stages. Burton said he’s just taking projects one at a time - he’s interested, but he’s shooting Alice first. Boucher hopes to get a visit to the set soon, and I’m sure he’ll tell us all about it when he does - stay tuned!

Vanessa swears she didn’t tame the super sexy star who’s dating exploits before her were well known, from Winona Ryder to Kate Moss. “Like a lion?” she said, “No, no, we did it to each other.” She added that maybe she was a good girlfriend only because she is HIS girlfriend, and vice versa. (I dunno, I think any of us would be an excellent girlfriend if the other half of the equation was Johnny! Just sayin’!) She continued to gush, though, saying that “it’s difficult to explain, but it’s something that’s natural, obvious and beautiful.”

All together now… awwwwwww.

Do the parents of Lily Rose (9) and Jack (6) plan to marry anytime soon? No, says Paradis, adding that they “don’t talk” about it much. “He’s got me, and he knows he’s got me.” Who needs more then that?

She does understand our attraction to her hunky notHubby. “I want to mop him all the time, I do!” she said, because he’s a very charming person.

Yeaaaaaaah. His charm. THAT’S what we’re after!

…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?

Helena will be taking on the role of the Red Queen for the film. That’s not the Queen of Hearts, for those purists, but a different character all together from the sequel. Seems that, like many adaptations, Burton is taking bits and pieces from both works to place into a single film.

Now that we know Helena is on board to play the Red Queen - who is the White Queen? None other then the always elegant Princess herself, Anne Hathaway! Anne has already done well with royalty roles, such as from the Princess Diaries, and we think she is perfect to play the benevolent monarch to be deposed and banished by Bonham-Carter’s Red Queen. The White Queen needs Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) to slay a creature known as the Bandersnatch.

The movie, filming now in LA, will use a combination of performance-capture imagery, (like the oh so sexy Angelina Jolie et. al. in “Beowulf”) with live-action footage to create a uniquely awesome rendition of the classic tale.

It will TOO be awesome! I declare it so! How could it not be with the always creatively different Holy Trinity of Wackiness involved? I wonder if Anne knows what she’s gotten herself into…

Anyway! Someone on set, told UK’s Mirror, that “Johnny was laying it on thick saying how much he enjoyed the first episode of the series.” Then continued saying, “He said he would do anything to have a part in the movie.”

Aaaaaaanything? Man, don’t I wish I were part of that casting couch session. Just kidding!

When asked about the plans for a Little Britain USA movies, Matt Lucas would only say that hey though it would be “interesting to make a movie where we play lots of characters.”

It might even do well. Reports say that LIttle Britain USA on BBC1 Friday pulled in five million viewers. To see what all the hubbub is about, you can go here to HBOs Little Britain’s web site, view previews, meet the cast, and even see Lucas and partner David Walliams who are the masterminds behind the series in an exclusive HBO interview.

You can even follow character Andy on Twitter, and send… um, unique… e-cards. There’s downloads, newsletters, facebook, and more community type things too. Just be warned - if you’re not into British humour? you probably will not like this show at all. If you do? have at it! And you KNOW it won’t matter if we love or hate it, normally - if Johnny’s in it? We’re THERE.