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| Pirate Depp: Je me déplace àParis pour toujours! | ||
| 2003-07-16 | ||
| If "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp’s kids want to smoke pot when they’re older, they can count on dad to get it. Not that he wants them to. He doesn’t. But as somebody with plenty of drugs in his past, he thinks that if his kids are going to try pot, they might as well try it at home, where the stuff has been quality tested and isn’t laced with other drugs, such as PCP. A ’Normal’ American Home setting. "Out on the street, you never know what you’re getting," Depp told GQ. "Suddenly two days later you’re beating yourself in the head with a tennis racquet, quoting (Edgar Allan) Poe. You don’t want that for your kid." Depp calls pal River Phoenix’s fatal drug overdose, which he witnessed, "a nightmare you never recover from" and says his new family helped him jettison his former "dumb-ass, self-centered (bleep) persona."
Striking French film workers who shut down a film shoot starring Jack Nicholson got sympathy from an unexpected quarter: the star. Told that artists’ rights were threatened, the actor voiced his support. "The struggle continues!" he said in broken French, wearing his trademark dark sunglasses. Ok folks, don’t let me down.... | ||
| Posted by:Cyber Sarge |
| #13 The French can have Depp. I've run into fools like him before who think it's a great idea for Dad to be there when they do their drugs. That's a father being a "friend" instead of a parent and it's a very good formula for a destroyed kid...but hey, Depp wants to be that way and live in France? C-Ya! |
| Posted by: R. McLeod 2003-7-17 4:24:10 AM |
| #12 Pretty deep for a high school dropout. |
| Posted by: Ned 2003-7-17 12:31:49 AM |
| #11 I like Depp as an actor. Also, as a person he is fairly well-read and literate. Being in France, surrounded by the French and also partaking of the supposedly tres cool 'hate america' attitude that is so rife in pop culture, it is not surprising he would be 'too sophisticated and adult' to understand the cameraderie behind the simple act of asking for Freedom Fries. Unfortunately Depp has too much money to see first-hand the impact of France's domestic/international policies. He will never be resident in an algerian ghetto block where the joys of socialist-style social engineering meet the Muslim anti-west mindset. He will partake of the champagne socialism tipping a supportive nod to the striking workers: he is the modern day aristocracy. The attitudes he and others of his social class foster, impact severely on the poor and oppressed: the very people he would like to identify as being sensitive to. They are the ones who have to live with the ruined lives that come out of a defeatist blame-america, blame-the-rich mindset and an appeasement of dictators. You are right about the "childish freedom" comment, Fred. Most people who complain complain complain and blame society for their problems do not want to be free. Freedom implies freedom to fail. Freedom to be poor. Freedom to face the consequences of our conscious actions. Most people in the socialist left despise freedom. They want only to be looked after, wrapped in cotton wool. Free to do whatever they want but not to face the consequences. If I steal a car, it's because society made me do it, not because I wanted to: therefore society must pay for me to be rehabilitated with plenty of counselling. That is not freedom. America: you are the last bastion of Freedom in the western world and that is what makes you the greatest and strongest nation on earth. Do not lose it for a second. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-7-16 11:48:39 PM |
| #10 Regarding Johnny's broken French, how hard is it to say, "La lutte continue!"? Pause. Of course! He had to say it off the top of his head rather than read it from a script! Adieu, Johnny, mon vieux et bonne chance. And don't worry about your language skills. Les intellectuels will still receive you in their salons as long as you spout the right stuff. |
| Posted by: Michael 2003-7-16 5:07:06 PM |
| #9 Its unlikely he can even spell "citizenship". |
| Posted by: SPQR 2755 2003-7-16 4:18:26 PM |
| #8 Johnny Depp? Wasn't he in "Blow"? That was an autobiography, right? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-7-16 3:11:13 PM |
| #7 At least Depp had the balls to actually follow through on his threats and leave the US. Too bad so many of his fellow actors are spineless. (But has he renounced his citizenship?) |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-7-16 2:54:38 PM |
| #6 Good riddance to bad rubbish. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-7-16 2:31:04 PM |
| #5 Perhaps Depp will be in the vanguard of a new "Lost Generation" of American expatriates fleeing "Bush's America" for the freedoms offered by Paris? Imagine Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Babs, et. al. spewing their invective from the Left Bank. We can only hope. |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-7-16 1:59:32 PM |
| #4 Ahhhh - my old enemy Not Mike Moore! Well, as a blue-collar "business executive" (I own a business) in California, I have this to say: people who actually run businesses generally have a very good grasp of reality. If they don't, they end up not running a business for very long. It's as simple as that. Can you say the same thing for Depp or Nicholson? I think probably not. I've got no problem with the idea having the life style of a Hollywood star as far as wealth goes because, believe me buddy, if I ever get it I will have earned it. Like any good American I already contribute to political causes.... generally about $20 at a time. Which is how a good number of them get 99% of their funding. You know, the problem with you leftists is that you don't really want to make the poor rich - I don't think you care very damn much about that. Wha you want is to make the rich poor, to bring them down to your level. Just one problem, though; it's too low for most of us to stoop. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2003-7-16 1:37:53 PM |
| #3 NMM????? WTF???? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2003-7-16 1:23:02 PM |
| #2 Why, this is sounding like Class Warfare! Substitute business executive for actor, throw in some accounting shenanigans,add a torrent of political contributions to the right party--and I'd bet you'd have no problem with that lifestyle! It worked for Ken Lay |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2003-7-16 12:46:53 PM |
| #1 These dimwits live in a totally different world than 99% of the human race, so its not really that hard to understand why they have a skewed vision of reality. Imagine if your job went something like this: wake up in the morning with one of America's 100 most beautiful women. Get served your 5 star breakfast by your butler. Drive to work in 200,000 Italian sports car. Spend the day getting told what a goddam great guy you are.... a genius! Recieve paycheck of one million for memorizing some lines and pretending to be a tough guy. Repeat each day. Wonder why these cats don't see things the same way we do? It's no wonder at all! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2003-7-16 12:11:01 PM |