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Another little update: Ginny and Brian, along with Silke and myself, are helping with getting some magazine scans into text form. So keep an eye on the articles section, from the last page to the newer entries from year 2005, to read some older articles.

We’re still searching for some contributors. Volunteers, who’d temporary like to help with adding movie info, creating Johnny info pages, writing interview transcripts etc. Maybe as a little holiday job? It is really easy!

Also, still, a new main staffer for the galleries!

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JOHNNY WINS ROUND 2!!!

In an upset, No. 3 Leonardo DiCaprio may have had a stellar year and could be looking at an Oscar nom for his work in J. Edgar, but dashing Captain Jack stole the show. No. 6 Johnny Depp had Leo walking the plank with his 57 percent.

On to ROUND 3—this will be tough–up against Robert Pattison–pls. vote often!

VOTE HERE

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And one more chapter of Jade’s (and previously Lizzy’s) Johnny biography here at Johnny-Depp.org. Go on reading: Rich Pirate Daddy

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On May 27, 1999, something happened that turned Johnny’s life around, something that would never let him be the same ‘wild boy’ of his youth ever again. He was a father. Depp announced that fatherhood gave him “real foundation, a real strong place to stand in life, in work, in everything.” He had also made a decision that he would TRY to act in films which his children could watch, later on. Lily-Rose Melody Depp changed Johnny’s life, much as he gave her hers.

However, fatherhood did not keep Johnny from his film career. After putting the finishing touches on The Astronaut’s Wife, a movie in which he plays an astronaut who is possesed by aliens, ohnny moved on to shoot a seventeen minute role in Chocolat, playing a guitar playing gypsy. Johnny also contributed to the movie’s soundtrack. As the new millenium crashed down upon them, Johnny put on his women’s clothes and played a minor role in Before Night Falls, as a transexual, and also a liutenant.

He did two more movies, From Hell, and also The Man Who Cried, a film that earned a low box office gross, due to it’s straight to DVD limited release, before teaming up with Penelope Cruz  to film Blow, where he was a drug dealer, whose duty as a father often got into the way with his drug dealings. He again acted in an action movie, Once Upon A Time In Mexico,

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Johnny’s and Kates relationship was targeted by the media, as much as his with Winona, as Kate was also naturally a private person. In the midst of defending each others careers and figures, Johnny chose the time to star in another movie, Dead Man. Dead Man was a black-and-white, grainy, indie flick about an accountant who lost his parents and meets Nobody, and many other queer characters in this gunslinging, Acid Western film that garnered rather good reviews. However, after this role, Johnny moved on to take a role that put him in the view that many females fans saw him in. That of the world’s greatest lover, Don Juan DeMarco.

In Don Juan, Johnny plays a man taken in for attempted suicide as he explains his past, and how it led him to think he was indeed Don Juan DeMarco, the world’s greatest lover, in this uber-romantic film which grossed enough to place it roughly #4 on the charts. However, although Johnny’s film was ultra romantic, Johnny’s own personal lovelife was being shot at by the media, there being many cases of reported breakup which he denied. However, it was when he was with Kate, that Johnny was at his wildest.

After wrapping up a small cameo in Cannes Man, Johnny put on his directing gloves and directed “The Brave”, which he starred in. The Brave was a rather short film, about how a man, in order to earn money for his family,

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Our Volunteers run some days ago brought Jade to us, who offered to continue Johnny’s biography here at JDorg. Within 2 days, she added two more episodes of Johnny’s life, which you can now read here:

The Topsy Turvy Years and After the Storm, comes the Calm

More will come soon. Thank you, Jade!

If you also want to contribute to JDorg, please read our wish list here and/or contact me!

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After wrapping up “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, Johnny’s personal life took a sweeping downturn. Earlier, in 1989, he had met actress Winona Ryder, whom he had started dating in 1990, and gotten her name tattooed on his arm. Johnny and Winona had a turbulent relationship, made even more so by the press which continually cast them into the limelight. In 1993, they finally decided to call it quits. Johnny described it as an “amicable split” while the press reported “unavoidable personality conflicts.”

Soon after this, Johnny immersed himself in work, maybe hoping to ignore as much of his personal  life. He again teamed up with Tim Burton for their second collaboration, “Ed Wood”, a black and white biopic of the unsuccesful director. 
As quoted from Johnny “After ten minutes of hearing about this, I was commited.  At this period in his life, Johnny was depressed about nearly everything in his life, including films and filmmaking, and he claimed that this role was “an opportunity to stretch out and have some fun.” Although the film grossed rather badly in the box office (probably due to its limited release), it went on to recieve soaring praises and critical acclaim, being decribed as “an accurate portrait of an inaccurate man.”

In the midst of his tension, on both film-making and personal life, Johnny had a slice of solace, his nightclub, which he co-owned. He described it as “a place where all of us who loved similar music could just,

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Voting now open for Round 2–Johnny vs. Leo

Nice part about Johnny’s win on Round 1

But the biggest defeat came from Johnny Depp. It was a tough fight as veteran heartthrob was up against the equally charming George Clooney. But in the end, Johnny won out, and by a decisive amount: 63 percent!

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