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AFI Fest
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BAFTA/LA Awards
Los Angeles, November 10, 2005, ETV – Johnny Depp declined to walk the red carpet at the BAFTA/LA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles) on Thursday, because he didn’t want to upstage his own premiere of “The Libertine”, unfolding the next day. Depp was there to present one of the evening’s awards.
Rina left us ;-(
Due to time problems Rina had to leave the staff. Anyway I will try to
keep her ideas and we thank her for her time and effort she put into
the site.
Movie Tells of Hunter S. Thompson Send-Off
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Followers of gonzo legend Hunter S. Thompson will get an opportunity to see his elaborate memorial service in a short film directed by Wayne Ewing.
When I Die will be shown Saturday at the Starz Denver International Film Festival. The short film follows the creation of the 15-story tower that was used to blast Thompson’s ashes into the sky at the private memorial service at his Woody Creek Farm, in Colorado. The memorial was held in August, six months after Thompson committed suicide in his Woody Creek home, with 250 guests invited to the private service. Some of the celebrities who attended were Johnny Depp, John Cusack, Sean Penn and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Johnny Depp, who played Roaul Duke (Thompson) in 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, paid the $2.6 million cost of the memorial.
Tennyson and Bront
Tennyson and Bronte loved his poetry. So why is the Earl of Rochester remembered only as a drunken lech?
Barry Didcock on the slow rehabilitation of a 17th century rake and libertine
HIS lyrics were peppered with obscenities and satirised peers and rivals alike. He scandalised polite society by partying hard with actresses and prostitutes and yet he has won many fans, among them feminist critic Germaine Greer. He was implicated in at least one murder, was an early practitioner of “dogging” and had a number of alter egos, including Dr Bendo. He could regularly be found quaffing claret in city nightspots and among his many affectations was a pet monkey. Predictably, he died young. And now Johnny Depp is going to play him in the movie biopic.
But this is no rapper with an itchy trigger finger, no rock star with a death wish. Instead it’s a description of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, the most notorious rake and libertine of the 17th century. He was also a poet and playwright but despite being championed by Defoe, Voltaire and Tennyson, his verse had been all but excised from the canon of English literature when Graham Greene picked up the mantle in the early 1930s. Greene wrote a biography called Lord Rochester’s Monkey, but even it was deemed too fruity for his publishers, Heinemann, who feared prosecution under the obscenity laws. Only in 1974 did it finally see the light of day.
Clooney and Depp snubbed by Little Britain
Yahoo – Hollywood stars George Clooney and Johnny Depp’s requests to appear in the upcoming series of Little Britain have been snubbed – because they are too famous – By WENN, Tuesday November 8, 2005.
Lucas says, “It could really unbalance the show. I mean, (our characters) Lou and Andy would never meet George Clooney. “There will be no cameos from the stratospherically famous.”
Vote for People’s Sexiest Man Ever!
People Magazine is accepting votes from the public for People’s Sexiest Man Ever. As of Nov. 7 at 8:00 a.m. CST, Johnny was leading the pack with 40% of the votes. If you would like to cast your vote, visit People.com. Good Luck Johnny!