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Weird; that’s the the most succinct review possible for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton’s adaptation of the book by Roald Dahl. By Bill Andrews.

Take the main man, the chairman chocolatier, the confectionery king, Willy Wonka himself. Bearing an unfortunate resemblance to Michael Jackson, Depp’s character often comes close to scaring both the on-screen children and the audience. Randomly, he says, “Everything in this room is eatable. I’m eatable, but that, my children, would be called cannibalism, and it is frowned upon in most societies.” For the most part, though, Wonka is simply shy and nervous around children, and only scary enough to be eccentric; an interesting guy to have on your AIM buddy list, but not to actually hang out with. Johnny Depp clearly enjoys himself throughout the movie, usually only slightly more than we do.

This story was published on Wednesday, August 3, 2005.
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Aug 3, 2005 – Yahoo News – HONG KONG (AFP) – Hollywood heart-throbs Johnny Depp and John Travolta will reportedly join singer Julie Andrews to help launch Disneyland’s new theme park in Hong Kong next month. Andrews famously played “Mary Poppins” in the classic children’s fantasy movie of the same name. Depp, starred in Disney films “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Finding Neverland”, and Travolta featured in 1998’s Oscar-nominated “A Civil Action”…

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02 August 2005 – www.stuff.co.nz. – SYDNEY: Brits went bonkers for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory over the weekend, helping propel the picture to the top spot at the foreign box office with estimated sales of $19.75 million from 15 countries…

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2005, August 2 – Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson, Aspen, CO

Title: I Felt like an outsider, Now I feel like I can do anything

Author: Martyn Palmer

Publication: Empire

Issue: August 2005

 In the Shadow Of two bright-red trucks emblazoned with an ornate “W” and across a courtyard packed hard with (fake) snow, the scarecrow figure that is Johnny Depp, as outlandish factory owner Willy Wonka, adjusts his black tunic before leaning in to have a few quiet words in Tim Burton’s ear. Burton stands away from his camera and has a little chuckle at whatever Johnny’s smiling about. They look happy. They look like two (big) little boys having a good time together kids in a sweet shop, you might say. Or. to be more precise, kids in a chocolate factory.

As if you didn’t know, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory reunites Team Burton and Depp, a kind of modern-day Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, with more quirk and fewer swords. Stand by for collaboration No. 4 (following Edward Scissorhands. Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow) and expect to enter a world originally created by Roald Dahl but perfectly designed for Burton’s particular, weirdly appealing sensibility and Depp’s beguilingly child-like demeanour.

“It’s fun and it’s meant to be fun.” Depp says later. “Tim is doing beautiful stuff: the sets are incredible and the work has been a ball. And for me. going back into the ring with Tim is like being home. Yeah, right at home,

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July 31, 2005 – The Sunday Times – Comment – Profile: Johnny Depp – A proliferation of body tattoos chart his journey through life, proclaiming his rites of passage like labels on a well-worn suitcase. There are insignia for Betty Sue, his beloved mother, his children Lily Rose and Jack, an Indian chief and many others including the actress Winona Ryder, whose accolade “Winona Forever” was surgically shortened to “Wino Forever” when their engagement came to a messy end…

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July 28, 2005 – iVillage.co.uk – ‘I went through a lot of fear and self-loathing in my twenties and thirties until it finally got through to me that there wasn’t any point in poisoning myself and feeling miserable anymore,’ says Depp of his difficult past. ‘I can only tell you that once you escape that kind of mindset, you have absolutely no desire to go back there…’

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July 29, 2005 – ContactMusic.com – Movie heart-throb JOHNNY DEPP eats so much sticky toffee pudding, he is concerned he is becoming addicted to the gooey dessert…

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29 July 2005 – Mirror.co.uk. – by Jan Janssen in Nassau – It’s hard to believe that the tanned, fit and healthy-looking star sitting calmly in the Bahamas sun is the same actor who came to recognition as a pale, goth-like figure drawn to edgy, off-beat roles…

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28 July 2005 – Metro Life – By Martyn Palmer – Tim Burton & Johnny Depp is a collaboration based on a friendship and a shared view that the world is a rather odd place. ‘We have a similar outlook,’ says Depp. ‘A similar sense of humour and sense of the absurd…And I think we also share the view that if you take a step back and observe most people…you realise that they’re actually completely out of their minds. Most people are really nuts, and that’s fascinating.’

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