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Johnny’s Depth

Sure, he’s still cool, but Johnny Depp is a new man, creating Oscar buzz with Finding Neverland and cherishing his family-though he still loves a whoopee cushion.

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I must say, I don’t think I would’ve ever met Johnny Depp w/out the help of my neighbor Matt. So Matt, if you read this, ever, you are the best!!! OK, now on to the good stuff. Here’s my story……

I work at the San Diego Zoo on my spare time on weekends. I’m an educator, and I basically educate the public. Anyways, I had come home from a long day at work. I was tired and just about ready to crash on the couch, when my neighbor, Matt, knocked on the door. Matt is a film maker, and he works for Sony Pictures. Well, he told me he was going to film the Golden Globe Awards, and had asked me if I wanted to go. OF COURSE I SAID YES!!! And then came the best part…he told me Johnny Depp was gonna be there!!!AAAHHHH!!!!! I was so excited. I have been a Johnny fan since I can remember. I used to watch “21 Jump Street” in my crib! And he told me that he guarenteed himself that I was gonna meet him!!! YAY!!!! Well after all of the excitement, I checked my calendar and realized I had 2 weeks to get a dress and be prepared. I needed to get started! A while later I had a dress and I was ready to make like a Tom and Cruise. lolz! Or in this case, maybe I’ll make it like a pirate and sail. Back to the point!!

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Ivy is one lucky girl who managed to meet Johnny thanks to the Make-a-Wish foundation. This is probably the most amazing experience you have ever read of a fan getting to meet an actor and to spend the whole day with him, and for this reason you should take your time and read in thoroughly.

“I am 15 years old and have a disease called Cystic Fibrosis. Although this disease is considered potentially fatal, I am VERY healthy. I’m sure that as far as this disease is concerned, I’ll live a very long and happy life. I am pretty open about it, so if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask, or you can visit www.cff.org

The disease mostly affects the lungs and stomach, but puts a heavy strain on all of the organs. Of course for every patient it varies a little. As I said, I am very healthy, as I ran on our cross country team, beginning track, and even play the flute. I take pills whenever I eat, and do a daily treatment. Beside a few other pills including vitamins and whatnot, that is about it.

Throught the Make-A-Wish Foundation (www.wish.org) I was offered a wish. My first idea of a wish was to go on a Disney cruise. It had never crossed my mind to meet Johnny! lol : ) The cruise didn’t quite pan out,

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On Tuesday (today) Johnny was on the Oprah Winfrey Show, together with Kate Winslet and Freddie Highmore. He looked again 10 years younger than at the London Premiere.

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HOST: Oprah Winfrey

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ellen Rakieten
JOHNNY DEPP AND KATE WINSLET
Unidentified Man #1: All right. Here we go, guys.
Unidentified Man #2: Oprah’s on the way.
Unidentified Man #3: Good show, good show, good show.

OPRAH WINFREY: Johnny Depp’s OPRAH show debut, the sexiest man alive. When you look at the cover…
Mr. JOHNNY DEPP (Actor): I tried not to look at the cover.
WINFREY: A rare interview.
Most romantic encounter…
Mr. DEPP: Wow.
WINFREY: …that you can speak of.
Mr. DEPP: Yeah. Better have a drink.
WINFREY: From ’80s teen heartthrob to A-list movie star…
Mr. DEPP: I was convinced that I was going to be fired.
WINFREY: …and the love of his wife.
Mr. DEPP: I just knew.
WINFREY: Plus…
Ms. KATE WINSLET (Actress): Oh, this is my kind of talk show.
WINFREY: …the ultra-talented Kate Winslet.
A lot of people make a big deal about your weight. You look spectacular.
Next.

Yes. Good to see you. Good to see you. Great. Good to see you. Whoo! Thank you. Thank you. Too much. Thank you. So I hope you go out and vote today, because I just did. I just did. Everybody has to vote today. Now,
OK, I know my next guest is not going to like this. He’s not going to like
it. But whether he likes it or not,

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Title: Johnny’s Depth

Publication: People Magazine

Issue: November 2004

Johnny Depp was having his very own take-your-daughter-to-work day. For months he had been commuting from the set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory near London to see his fami­ly—Lily-Rose, 5, Jack, 2, and their mom, his longtime companion, Vanessa Paradis, 31—at their retreat on the French Riviera. Every weekend was the same, says producer Richard Zanuck: On Friday after work Depp took a two-hour flight to Nice followed by a two-hour drive to the family house in a tiny French village, then headed back to London again every Sunday night. The trip never wore him out. “Monday morning he’d be all smiles and say, ‘I just had the greatest time with my family’” says Zanuck. “It seemed to refresh him.” But he brought the family to England for the last month of shooting. And nothing could quite compare to the charge he got bringing Lily-Rose to the set on Nov. 9. As Zanuck explains, “He wanted her to see him playing with the Oompa Loompas.”

Talk about perks. Less than a year after Hollywood’s sweetly scruffy outsider was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for the $654 million-grossing Pirates of the Ca­ribbean, Depp, 41, is once again riding high on a wave of good fortune. There’s Oscar buzz about his role as Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland. And there’s Depp’s deep contentment with family life— a life that now includes a recently purchased private island in the Caribbean where he can watch Paradis,

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Title: Heeere’s Johnny

Publication: Film Review

Issue: November 2004

It feels strange to call Johnny Depp a sex symbol. He may have starred as a man who thought he was the greatest lover m the world in Don Juan DaMarco but Depp is not known for playing the matinee idol. While the late 1980s TV show 21 Jump Street propelled him to pin-up status, Depp has been running away from the label ever since. From his cross dressing filmmaker in Ed Wood to his pill-popping journalist in Fear and Loathing In Los Vagas, Depp has chosen roles that do anything but elicit swoons from his female fans. Consider his gap-toothed swashbuckler in Pirates of the Caribbean – which last year brought him the biggest hit of his career, taking a whopping $305 million – and you will see what I mean.

Not that it`s stopped him regularly being voted one of Hollywood’s sexiest movie stars of all time. Maybe it`s that down-at-heel appearance of  his, but Johnny Depp doesn’t have to play hunks to come across as sexy. His teen-idol status was all in his off-screen behavior; from dating a string of high profile starlets, from Winona Ryder to Sherilyn Fenn to trashing hotel rooms, fighting with paparazzi and owning the infamous Viper Room club. Depp isrock’n’roll to the hilt – so much so, he even played slide-guitar on the Oasis track Fade In-Out.

These days, however,

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Title: The Innocents
Author: Kevin Jackson
Publication: Sight and Sounds
Issue: November 2004

Marc Forster’s unpredictable follow up to his critical success with Monster’s Ball (2001) is a biopic, of sorts, which purports to tell the story of how J.M. Barrie found his inspiration for Peter Pan in his deal­ings with the Llewelyn Davies family – the origi­nals for the Darlings in the play. Adapted by David Magee from a recent stage piece, The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allen Knee. Finding Neverland is an unusually sober, tactful, thoughtful and thought prompting example of the genre; a rare example of a film aimed at the so-called family audience which will appeal most directly to the mature members of the family rather than the screaming tykes.

Like many other highly literate biopics -Lawrence of Arabia, for instance – it is also a pack of whoppers. Well established facts of chronology and geography are distorted, characters traduced or sim­ply invented, unwarranted speculations passed off as gospel truth. Does this matter? Not greatly, and while some pedantic Barrie fans will no doubt wax apoplectic, their ire will be misplaced. Some of the movie’s trifling’s with reality act mainly to stream line the plot and jerk a few additional tears: stan­dard dramatic license. The most important of them strengthen its ruling theme, which, to put it maybe a shade too pompously, is that of the origins and consolations of art: standard poetic license.

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