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Starting in 1975, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone is assigned to infiltrate the New York City–based Bonanno crime family. Calling himself Donnie Brasco and posing as a jewel thief expert from Vero Beach, Florida, he befriends Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero, a low-level mob hit man whose personal life is in tatters, and Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano, the boss of Lefty’s crew.

Lefty can’t seem to make enough money, his son is a drug addict and he is continually passed over for promotion to a higher position within the crime family. He continually reminds Brasco of his growing disillusionment about having spent 30 years in the Mafia (and killing 26 people), with little to show for it.

In Donnie, at least, Lefty sees a young protégé who might be able to succeed where he failed. He takes Donnie under his wing. Donnie quickly becomes accepted by the other family members, as an “associate” (the lowest Mafia rank describing people who have criminal ties to the Mafia but are not actual members) and is later nearly officially inducted into the mob as a “made man.”

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Psychiatrist Jack Mickler (Marlon Brando) dissuades a would-be suicide – the 21-year old, costumed like Zorro claiming he’s Don Juan (Johnny Depp), is held for a ten-day review in a mental institution. Mickler, about to retire, insists on doing the evaluation and conducts it without medicating the youth. “Don Juan” tells his story – birth in Mexico, the death of his father, a year in a harem, and finding true love (and being rejected) on a remote island. Listening enlivens Mickler’s relationship with his own wife, Marilyn (Faye Dunaway). As the ten days tick down and pressure mounts on Mickler to support the youth’s indefinite confinement, finding reality within the romantic imagination becomes Jack’s last professional challenge.

by Wikipedia

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William Blake (Johnny Depp), an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, rides by train to the frontier company town of Machine to assume a promised job as a bookkeeper in the town’s namesake metal works. During the trip, a Fireman (Crispin Glover) warns Blake against the enterprise while passengers shoot buffalo from the train windows. Arriving in town, Blake discovers that his position has already been filled, and is driven from the workplace at gunpoint by John Dickinson (Robert Mitchum), the ferocious owner of the company. Jobless and without money or prospects, Blake meets Thel Russell (Mili Avital), a former prostitute who sells paper flowers. He lets her take him home. Thel’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) surprises them in bed and shoots Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body. A wounded Blake shoots and kills Charlie with Thel’s gun before climbing dazedly out the window and fleeing Machine on a stolen pinto. Company-owner Dickinson, the father of Charlie, hires three legendary frontier killers to hunt down Blake as the murderer of his son and Thel,

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In 1954 Baltimore, “Cry-Baby” Wade Walker (Johnny Depp) is the leader of a gang of “Drapes”. His ability to shed a single tear drives all the girls wild. One day after school, he is approached by Allison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane), a pretty girl tired of being a “Square”, and the two fall in love.

Despite Allison’s grandmother’s (Polly Bergen) skepticism, Allison goes with Cry-Baby to Turkey Point, a local hangout spot for the Drapes, and sings with the Drapes. As Walker and Allison tell each other about their orphan lives (Cry-Baby’s father was sent to the electric chair after being the “Alphabet Bomber” – a killer who bombed places in alphabetical order [airport], [barber shop]); and Allison’s parents, who take separate planes so Allison won’t be alone, but their planes still collided with each other), Allison’s jealous square boyfriend, Baldwin (Stephen Mailer), starts a riot. Cry-Baby is blamed for the fight and sent to a penitentiary, outraging all his friends and even Allison’s grandmother,

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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Victor Van Dort(voiced by Johnny Depp) and Victoria Everglot(voiced by Emily Watson)are headed to the altar in Holy Matrimony,when Victor gets very cold feet. Out in a forest a way for the villiage,Victor says his vows perfectly and rest Victoria’s ring on waht he thinks is a tree branch that brings to “life” a Corpse Bride(voiced by Helena Bonham Carter) and ends up in the land of the Dead. Through a series of bizzare events Victor returns to The Land of the Living and marrys his true Love Victoria.

by Ginny Osborne

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This fall Johnny spent a a fun-filled week with his old friend Jonathan Shaw in Los Angeles.

(Photo exclusive courtesy of Jonathan Shaw. Please do not post the photo anywhere else or crop out the watermark.)

Read the full story in Jonathan’s blog.
More about Jonathan HERE and HERE.

Johnny about Jonathan Shaw’s book Narcisa:

’93Finally, after twenty-plus years of coaxing, cajoling, pleading and basic needling on my part, my ol’92scallywag brother, Jonathan Shaw has put his pen to paper, dragging and drudging up virulent and violent hallucinations from his not so cute brain-scape. Been waiting too long for this. So have you, whoever you are, believe me. If you don’92t yet know him, you will. If you didn’92t want to, too bad. Once he’92s in, he’92s in. J.S.’92s words, work, life, lives, deaths, rants, rage, hilarity and taste rank with the best of ’91em. If Hubert Selby Jr., Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neil Cassady, Dr. Hunter S.Thompson, the Marquis de Sade, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Edward Teach, Charley Parker, Iggy Pop, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, R. Crumb, Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Dashiell Hammett, E.M. Cioran and all of the Three Stooges had all been involved in some greasy, shameful, evil whorehouse orgy, Jonathan Shaw would surely be its diabolical, reprobate spawn.’93

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Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) like her ancestors, drifts across France. In the winter of 1959, she travels to a tranquil French village, where she and her daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), open a small chocolaterie. The store imbues both wonder and angst within the classical villagers as it opens during the forty days of Lent.

Soon, Vianne’s allure and confections enliven a married couple’s aphrodisia, encourage an elderly man’s secret love, bring rapport with a willful diabetic, and comfort an awkward woman who longs to leave her drunk and abusive husband. Nevertheless, the devout village mayor, Comte Paul de Reynaud (Alfred Molina), sees Vianne as an immoral provocateur and quietly contests against her. The battle peaks when a band of river gypsies camp on the village outskirts and Vianne finds a strong, mutual sexual attraction with the Manush Romani (Gypsy) Roux (Johnny Depp).

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Willy Wonka has to find an heir for his candy factory and his beloved workers. To do this Willy puts 5 golden tickets in chocolate bars for 5 lucky children to visit the factory. The candy bars are sent all over the world. One of these five children is a boy named Charlie Buckett who is very poor and only gets one chocolate bar a year on his birthday, making his chance of getting ticket remote. On the last day before the contest closes Charlies finds a Golden Ticket. The next day Charlie and his Grandpa Joe visit the factory for the day and Charlie finds out that dreams do eventually come true.

by Ginny Osborne

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The film opens to a young George (Jesse James) and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths). Fred files for bankruptcy and loses everything, but tries to convey to George that money is not important.

As an adult, George (Johnny Depp) moves to Southern California with his friend “Tuna” (Ethan Suplee) and they plan to earn a living by selling marijuana with the help of George’s girlfriend, Barbara Buckley (Franka Potente), an airline stewardess who introduces them to Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens), the main dealer. With Derek’s help, George and Tuna make a lot of money. Kevin Dulli (Max Perlich), a college student back in Boston, visits them and tells them of the enormous demand for pot in Boston. With Barbara’s help, they start bringing the drugs to Boston.

As the demand grows, they decide to start buying the drugs directly from Mexico with the help of a few Mexican drug lords.

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