23 July 2005 – The Independent Online Edition – By Andrew Gumbel –
For 15 years, Johnny Depp has been the ideal movie star, the kind who slips under the mass-cultural radar, the kind who avoids most if not quite all of the inane Hollywood gossip about power and status, who never shows up in cynically constructed big-budget spectaculars – who might go entirely unnoticed, indeed, were it not for the fact that he is consistently and quirkily brilliant in just about anything he turns his hand to…
