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On July 13, 2005 Johnny Depp appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote his new dazzler eye-catching children’s film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Depp who lights up the screen as the deliciously-dotty confectioner teamed up yet once again with the equally brillant director Tim Burton and together they produced a sweet sensation…

Introduction

Depp: Thank you.

Leno: Thanks for coming.

Depp: Thank you for having me.

lots of screaming – Depp is looking to Leno for help

Leno: Well, let’s talk to the guy. Johnny laughs Looking through your bio, you used to be a mechanic?

Depp: In a way…yeah…in a way. Yeah…I was a…I was a gas station attendant, and I…so I used to pump gas and the whole thing, and then one day the owner of the place came out and said, “You’re going to work in the garage, now.” And I tried….to stop him…from allowing me to do that.

Leno: Had you had any experience working on cars?

Depp: No. No, I knew absolutely nothing about cars. Uh, and then I, you know…I ended up…he said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll show you”. So I did like, wheel alignments and all this stuff, until…one day… I did what I thought was a terrific wheel alignment, you know, changed all the tires and uh, put all the lugs back on. The guy took off around the corner, and his left front wheel just…shot off.

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Johnny Depp and chocolate – by Editor di-ve.com- Johnny Depp does not like chocolate even though he starred in two films associated with chocolate.

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July 12, 2005 – bbc.co.uk. ENT NEWS – Word has it that Johnny has finally gone and done it. According to the ENT NEWS he’s pulled off the big coup; he’s managed to persuade Rolling Stone Keith Richards to star as Captain Jack Sparrow’s father in one of the two upcoming ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ sequels. “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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12 July 2005 – There’s been tons of speculation floating around about the high-pitched voice and the pale face of Johnny’s portrayal of Willy Wonka a.k.a Michael Jackson. “The weird thing is that actually it never occurred to me,” said Depp, “that there would be any kind of potential connection to Michael Jackson. It never entered my mind.” He added, “It doesn’t bother me, everyone’s entitled to think what they want, even while being violently wrong.”

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JOHN MCKAY – AM 900 CHML – July 11, 2005 – Cry-Baby, Johnny Depp’s first big-screen experience, is enjoying a special director’s cut DVD release from Universal this week.

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ASPEN, Colo. July 11, 2005 – (AP)- Friends and family of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson are preparing to pepper the sky with the late writer’s ashes.

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11 JULY 2005 – Hello Magazine – Appropriately clad in a chocolate-coloured jacket and hat, Johnny Depp attracted his fair share of attention when he arrived at the Los Angeles premiere of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory…

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By Kirk Honeycutt – The Hollywood Reporter – As reviews go this one is as delicious as they get. A winning tasty treat it is rolled into one whimsical, magical mystery tour of the world’s greatest chocolate tale.

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David Germain of the Associated Press says Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one big studio film remake that actually improves on the original! The visual feast is jam packed with the imaginative to wondrous to socially creepy when compared to the 1971 version. We’ve come a long way from corny, cheesy and hokey…the quaint relic.

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Johnny Depp rips through Restoration England with a bottle of wine under one arm, a whore under the other – By Matthew Rose.

In the mid-’90s, John Malkovich approached Depp about starring as the earl in this adaptation of Stephen Jeffreys’s play, after portraying the rake himself at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. “My first reaction was, ‘Why not you?’ ” Depp recalls. ” ‘You’re so good. You should do it.’ And he said, ‘No, no, no, I want you to play it.’ ” Politeness aside, it’s a raunchy role Depp was born to play: Think Jack Sparrow meets the Marquis de Sade.

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