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I have to say that my hands are still shaking from the Johnny and Tim encounter. It’s absolutely surreal since I felt that I would never be able to meet them in real life ever in my life.

I arrived across the streets from the Graumann’s Chinese Theatre at around 8:45 and I was able to have a spot right at the front row thanks to the zoners who were saving spots for us there ever since 6:45 in the morning. We had a looong wait behind the rails, but the time seemed to whiz by since many Deppheads were there to hang out with. I wrote a private letter to Johnny, and I swear I had to have 15 rough drafts until I ended up with the final draft that I was going to send to Johnny. Karen left a small note in my PM this morning, and I copied that down and clipped that to my letter for Johnny to have.

It was so cool standing there since the soundtrack music was blaring in the speakers, and the theatre workers were starting to decorate the red carpet with couple dozens of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory posters. The lights were blaring and several impersonators came walking by and even a Willy Wonka impersonator who looked exactly like Johnny started hanging around the area. I had my “JDReads and JDZone congratulates Johnny and cast/crew” sign and several other zoners had “Zoners love Johnny” and “Semi-sweet and nuts”

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I was at the premeire yesterday. Okay lots of the zoners posted how the stupid street wasn’t blocked off and how Freddie did come over and then Tim so I won’t resay all that. having them come over made the shoving and pushing and being smashed into the barricade rail okay. The icing on the cake though was seeing JD’s hat come out of his black vehicle and him rushing over dodging cars and buses to get to his fans. What an amazing guy. I had already received a Tim Burton autograph and I was so happy about that. I brought my Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book that my Grandparents gave me in 1978. It isn’t the nicest looking thing but I adored that story so much as a kid. I had Tim sign the first page of the book, he seemed like he was glancing at it a bit and I’m hoping he thought that was cool since he obviously loves the book too. So back to our man, I yelled out PLEASE JOHNNY I HAVE MY OLD BOOK MY OLD CHARLIE BOOK! He gently took it from me and began writing his name. Being smashed against the rail, breathless with excitement over him standing in front of me holding my things I said I GOT THIS WHEN I WAS 8. He stopped writing, gave me a huge grin so big I could see all his gold teeth, looked directly into my eyes and said WOW. I was amazed at his sincerity during all the commotion.

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Hey everyone. 🙂 I’d like to say that this is definately one of the best Johnny Depp communities that I have come across so far. Wonderful forum. I’ve been reading the topics for a while now but I finally decided to register and join you guys after my experience today.

Well, obviously…I adore Johnny Depp. I’ve loved him since I was a little girl, when I saw his movies Private Resort, Crybaby and Edward Scissorhands. I finally saw him in person today in Hollywood at the Charlie & The Chocolate Factory premiere. My best friend Amy and I got to the theater around 5:30 am and there were only about 7-10 other fans who were there already. I guess it’s safe to say that we were the first group of people there. Since we were there so early we got to watch the crew members set up for the premiere which was going to take place at 3:00 pm.

So anyway, we got lined up against the barricade to stake our spots (first row…front and center which we THOUGHT would have been a great spot, but not really eh ) and more and more fans started showing up around 9 am and random people and tourists also filled the street a couple hours later. We were all lined up across the street. We waited…and waited…and waited for HOURS. Finally, the stars showed up (the kids from the movie as well as Tim Burton…gotta love him!) Tim came across the street to greet the fans but he only stayed in one spot….basically,

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NASSAU, Bahamas — Move over George Hamilton. Johnny Depp is dark. Mahogany dark, like a light-roast coffee bean in the sun. By JIM SLOTEK — Toronto Sun.

::In this excerpt Tim Burton and Johnny Depp talk to Jim Slotek about giving the Willy Wonka character a persona in their upcoming movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory::

Both Burton and Depp tell almost identical stories about how the Wonka characterization came about, inspired by, according to Depp, “guys like Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans and local guys like Uncle Al, and how odd it was the way they spoke, this bizarre musical rhythm and cadence to their speech pattern — ‘Good morning children …’

“I tested it on Lily-Rose to see if I was going in the right direction with the sound of this voice. A lot of times what happens is you come up with these ideas and you never get to try them until a read-through. So with Lily-Rose, I was talking to her one day. Many times we’ve played Barbies where she says, ‘Daddy, don’t use that voice.’ And what happened was we were playing and I started to use the Wonka voice, and she kind of lit up a little bit, like, ‘Where’s that coming from?’ And I thought, ‘Awright, I think I’m on the right track here.’ ”

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On June 26th this year Johnny was at the press conference in Nassau for his latest movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Today the first pics of the conference are published. I uploaded some pics, four I will show here (click to enlarge):

You can find more (40) of them in the jdorg galleries/appearances galleries

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I just started with the galleries/appearances galleries.
The first topic there is the press conference of Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory.

Check the pics posted by AnaMaria out at
Gallery
or visit the general galleries/appearances index page at https://johnny-depp.org/gallery/appearances/
(although there is still only that one appearance – more will follow as
soon as I have the time)

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Keith … yo ho ho and a bottle of rum – By SIMON THOMPSON – Sun Online.

ROLLING Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been signed up to… play dad to Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. “You talk about a dream come true,” said Depp, “you get to be a pirate with Keith Richards, does it get any better than that?”

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