SAY WHAT?

‘...But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?’” --quips Johnny Depp to a Disney exec/suit.

SAY WHAT?

They couldn’t stand him. They just couldn’t stand him,” Depp says of Disney’s reaction to his controversial interpretation of Sparrow. “I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie.’ Depp reveals to Smith, however, that he remained unfazed by the studio’s hysteria. “Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, What’s wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?… And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite… ‘But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?’ Which really made her nervous,”  

---Johnny Depp confesses to Vanity Fair (January) about the homophobic Disney "suits."

CHA-CHING

Recession.....what recession?

Do you want to know what $55.8 million looks like?

Look no further than Johnny Depp.

UK's The Daily Mail reveals that Disney is paying that amount to Depp upfront if he will reenact his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

And just think...how the mighty have fallen...that COUCH JUMPER use to be the king of the world but SHE never received a payout like this....

and if you are out of the public eye too long in H-land--they forget cha....are you listening Tom Hanks?

Hail to the new king of Hollywood!

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