Seems little Johnny Depp is a victim again:
DEPP: 'I CAN'T STAY IN RIOT-RAVAGED FRANCE'
Hollywood star JOHNNY DEPP is so shocked by the riots raging through France, he's considering abandoning his home in the country.
The FINDING NEVERLAND heart-throb moved to Europe when life in Los Angeles became too violent.
He has since divided time between the two continents - but he fears France will be scarred permanently by the current troubles.
He says, "It's insane, that setting cars on fire is the new strike.
"I went there (to France) to live because it seemed so simple.
"Now it's anything but. I don't know how they'll recover from this."
Oh my gosh... There were riots in the same country with him. The horrors.
This guy should really come to New Orleans. He whining that he saw some riots on TV from his palatial french villa and we're still finding bodies down here. If this is how he reacts to a few riots, he'd be calling suicide prevention if he lived down here. Reality sinks huh Johnny?
What a freaking self-absorbed idiot.
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Did the article say how far... (Below threshold)1. Posted by pennywit | November 19, 2005 9:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Did the article say how far away from him the car-burning, etc., was? If people burned cars a few blocks up the street from me, I'd change ZIP codes, too.
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1. Posted by pennywit | November 19, 2005 9:43 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 09:43
2. Posted by edmcgon | November 19, 2005 10:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This is why I don't pay attention to actors' political comments.
2. Posted by edmcgon | November 19, 2005 10:39 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 10:39
3. Posted by epador | November 19, 2005 10:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Poor Johnny, he thought France was SIMPLE! There's the real problem. I wonder if this will have an effect on his politics, this awakening to the real world...
3. Posted by epador | November 19, 2005 10:56 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 10:56
4. Posted by betsy | November 19, 2005 10:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
hey, johnny depp can do what he wants. stay/ leave whatever. you sound jealous that you dont live in a palatial french villa, but hey if you looked like johnny and could act like johnny, bet you would live in one in a heart beat! leave the guy alone, he's allowed his comments like everyone else! betsy
4. Posted by betsy | November 19, 2005 10:57 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 10:57
5. Posted by Mikey | November 19, 2005 11:00 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
And we're allowed to call him the pasty-faced wuss we think he is, betsy.
Ain't free speech a hoot? It goes every which way.
5. Posted by Mikey | November 19, 2005 11:00 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 11:00
6. Posted by Hershey | November 19, 2005 11:05 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
He wouldn't last an hour here in Iraq.
6. Posted by Hershey | November 19, 2005 11:05 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 11:05
7. Posted by DaveD | November 19, 2005 11:27 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wow! This is kind of sad, really. I hope it doesn't effect his creativity. You know, the ability to read a script and regurge the lines verbatim when the cameras are rolling.
7. Posted by DaveD | November 19, 2005 11:27 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 11:27
8. Posted by JAT0 | November 19, 2005 11:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Maybe he can get a nice fixer-up in the Quarter with Sean Penn! I seem to remember Penn scouting out the real estate not long ago by boat.
JohnnySeanDeppPenn, esqs.
No. 15 Burbon Street
8. Posted by JAT0 | November 19, 2005 11:39 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 11:39
9. Posted by betsy | November 19, 2005 11:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
you guys are SOOO funny! tell me you arent serious about one guys comments.... maybe you should ALL go to france and solve their problems since you have ALL the answers!!!
9. Posted by betsy | November 19, 2005 11:56 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 11:56
10. Posted by B Payne | November 19, 2005 12:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Give me a break Paul...I can't believe you are using ContactMusic.com as a source. They are one of the worst rags out there for taking things and twisting them around. Especially when they didn't do the interview themselves and never show it in true context.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/films/articles/20960768?source=Evening%20Standard
Depp and Paradis moved to France to bring up their children because he said LA was too violent. Has he become disenchanted after the recent riots and curfews that spread out from Paris? "It's insane that setting cars on fire is the new strike. It takes a lot away. I'm sure it'll clear up to a certain degree, but now we are based back in LA because I have work here. I went there [to France] to live because it seemed so simple. Now it's anything but. I don't know how they'll recover from this."
Yeah I think if my partner was French I would choose France over LA hands down. It's not uncommon for people to live where there partner is from. DUH!!! It's a beautiful country and yes, I am sure there is less violence there than in LA even with these riots. I would raise my kids there verses LA in a heartbeat if I had the money. The fact remains however that he never gave up his home in the States and has no intention of doing so. I think that speaks for itself. Who wouldn't be upset if these things were happening in the country where they live??? Will he give up his home in France because of it, not a chance. People over look the fact that they were already living in France when their children were born. They didn't move there for that reason...it was an added bonus.
10. Posted by B Payne | November 19, 2005 12:25 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 12:25
11. Posted by McGehee | November 19, 2005 12:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I would raise my kids there verses LA in a heartbeat if I had the money.
Oh crap -- now I'm gonna have to chip in and payday's still a week off.
11. Posted by McGehee | November 19, 2005 12:32 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 12:32
12. Posted by Darleen | November 19, 2005 1:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
[dialing 911] Hello? Grampa busted out of Atascadero again and he's been doing shots of Schapps before noon.
12. Posted by Darleen | November 19, 2005 1:04 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 13:04
13. Posted by Paul | November 19, 2005 1:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Darleen Grampa is toast, one hopes he gets mental help.
13. Posted by Paul | November 19, 2005 1:20 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 13:20
14. Posted by DaveD | November 19, 2005 1:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Okay, B. Payne, so I read the link you provided. Prior to getting to the paragraph you cited from the web article you have to go through the description of Depp's pre-Paradis self-destructive behavior in his earlier life. So, I guess since he has had an epiphany, cleaned himself up and now has a family Depp is privileged to stand aghast that his life in France is not quite the way he wrote the script. Funny how his take on the riots "raging" through France does not jive with the spin of the French government itself. He makes me laugh. I hope he finds piece of mind in a third piece of property in Switzerland.
14. Posted by DaveD | November 19, 2005 1:49 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 13:49
15. Posted by Crazy Politico | November 19, 2005 2:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Poor Poor Johnny Depp. Maybe he should try moving to the Moon, I heard there aren't anyone Isloamfacists there burning cars.
15. Posted by Crazy Politico | November 19, 2005 2:37 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 14:37
16. Posted by samantha | November 19, 2005 3:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Shut-up and stop whining. If he wants to leave he can.
By the way, you're the idiot if you call Johnny Depp "self-absorbed". He's probably one of the least self-absorbed celebrities out there.
16. Posted by samantha | November 19, 2005 3:07 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:07
17. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Give me a break B Payne!
It is NOT unusual for one news organization to use anothers interview as a source!
Case in point: Here is CNN's report about Depp moving to France. NOTE CNN acknowledges the use of an interview a German news magazine did with Deppas CNN's source.
Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Hollywood star Johnny Depp said on Wednesday the United States was a stupid, aggressive puppy and he would not live there until the political climate changed.
The 40-year-old actor, who stars in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' told the German news magazine Stern he was happier staying in the south of France with his wife, the French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, and their two children.
'America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive,' he said.
'My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out,' said the star of the off-beat films Edward Scissorhands and Dead Man.
Depp slammed George W. Bush's administration for its criticism of French opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
'I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots,' he told Stern.
17. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:16 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:16
18. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Opps, Sorry here is the CNN link
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/03/depp.us.reax.reut/
18. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:17 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:17
19. Posted by Kasja | November 19, 2005 3:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You all need help! Why do you people care so much about where he lives and shit! omg! you are th kind of people that start rumors and ruin peoples lives! its people like you that should become an actor or actress and see what its like! i would move too!
19. Posted by Kasja | November 19, 2005 3:19 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:19
20. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
B Payne wrote:
Depp and Paradis moved to France to bring up their children because he said LA was too violent.
What I think most posters are actually referencing and or laughing about Depp is his Anti-American statement he made which is FAR more than LA is too violent.
He said: 'America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive'
It appears that Depp did not realize the USA is not the only place the 'Human Condition' exists. He looked down his 'Elite' nose and thought he and France was SO SUPERIOR. Sucks for him to be proven WRONG! The Human Condition all over the world are basically the same.
20. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:26 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:26
21. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kasja wrote: you are th kind of people that start rumors and ruin peoples lives!
Aren't statements like this where rumors that ruin peoples lives start?
LOL
21. Posted by ordi | November 19, 2005 3:33 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:33
22. Posted by DaveD | November 19, 2005 3:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I don't know Kasja, I can see your frustration. I mean, there are the sane folks like yourself who sympathize with the very difficult and challenging lives these actors lead. And then there are their detractors like myself on this thread who you recognize as needing professional help because our lives of ease and financial independence leave us deaf to the discerning insights on any topic about which these suffering thespians choose to speak.
22. Posted by DaveD | November 19, 2005 3:46 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:46
23. Posted by avaroo | November 19, 2005 3:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What I cannot understand about Johnny Depp is how he could not have known how serious the problems and the discontent of French muslims are. It makes the news here, does it not make the news in France? Is it possible that he didn't know that first, second and third generation immigrants in France are living in such deplorable conditions?
23. Posted by avaroo | November 19, 2005 3:50 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 15:50
24. Posted by Elmo | November 19, 2005 4:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Johnny Depp for president!
Asshatville needs ya Johnny.
Janine Garafolo for Veep.
Start a new politcal party ......
2 Whiney Little Beeches.
Johnny Depp has vowed to defy any smoking ban imposed in Britain and attacks similar enforcements in his native America.
24. Posted by Elmo | November 19, 2005 4:57 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 16:57
25. Posted by Neo | November 19, 2005 6:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Let look at the bigger picture here.
This story is emblematic of the future of those who try to run away from the problems of the world.
First the US is too dangerous, then France. This (at least in the mind of Jacques Chirac anyway) is a major public figure, a celebrity, declaring that both Western superpowers are too dangerous to live in. So where does Depp (or anyone on the loony Left) go now that these two safe havens aren't safe ? Depp is experiencing first hand the future of those who flee from the world's problems (like Iraq). Depp can run, but he can't hide. A life on the run from those who will not negotiate.
First they came for the Republicans, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Republican;
Then they came for the conservatives, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a conservative;
Then they came for the libertarians, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a libertarian;
Then they came for the moderates, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a moderate;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
25. Posted by Neo | November 19, 2005 6:57 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 18:57
26. Posted by Beth | November 19, 2005 7:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
omg!!!11!11 u ppl hear r so old if u dont luv johhny depp he is so hott!!!
y r thr so many old ppl here!! i thot this wuz apossed 2b a cellebritty sight!!!
OMGGGG!!1!!! get a life & brain!! me & betsy gott one!!!
LOLLMAOMG!!
26. Posted by Beth | November 19, 2005 7:55 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 19:55
27. Posted by Beth | November 19, 2005 7:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
opps i mean me and betsy and kajsa have 1 brain!!1!
27. Posted by Beth | November 19, 2005 7:57 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 19:57
28. Posted by Maggie45 | November 19, 2005 8:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
OMG, Beth, you're hysterical!! LOL
28. Posted by Maggie45 | November 19, 2005 8:05 PM |
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29. Posted by ed | November 19, 2005 8:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hmmmm.
You must be joking. He wouldn't last an hour here in New Jersey!
:)
29. Posted by ed | November 19, 2005 8:38 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 20:38
30. Posted by Tracy | November 19, 2005 9:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I can't believe you people are bashing on Johnny like this! He is just being honest! You really need to leave him alone.
30. Posted by Tracy | November 19, 2005 9:33 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 21:33
31. Posted by Tracy | November 19, 2005 9:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Just a comment to Beth: I'm a Johnny fan too, but you really need to think before you type. Email me and we can talk.
31. Posted by Tracy | November 19, 2005 9:35 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 21:35
32. Posted by Golen Greg | November 19, 2005 11:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I am going to make the heralded call that Beth is being sarcastic. Thank you
32. Posted by Golen Greg | November 19, 2005 11:08 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 23:08
33. Posted by Elmo | November 19, 2005 11:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Beth do biggem funny. Make ha ha.
33. Posted by Elmo | November 19, 2005 11:55 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2005 23:55
34. Posted by drm rootkit | November 20, 2005 2:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp
Ha Ha! /nelson
34. Posted by drm rootkit | November 20, 2005 2:43 AM |
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35. Posted by epador | November 20, 2005 7:27 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If the Johnny fans are any indication, it doesn't look like another slap of reality in the face will wake him up to the real world after all.
35. Posted by epador | November 20, 2005 7:27 AM |
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Posted on November 20, 2005 07:27
36. Posted by betsy | November 20, 2005 7:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
i laugh, because you know, everyone here who has written an opinion for OR against johnny depp would scream like little school girls to be able to meet him! he's cool, he's an actor, get over yourselves!
36. Posted by betsy | November 20, 2005 7:57 AM |
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37. Posted by McGehee | November 20, 2005 10:33 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
i laugh, because you know, everyone here who has written an opinion for OR against johnny depp would scream like little school girls to be able to meet him!
For some reason this comment made me giggle.
Like a ... little ... oh, $#!t, she's right.
37. Posted by McGehee | November 20, 2005 10:33 AM |
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Posted on November 20, 2005 10:33
38. Posted by billy | November 20, 2005 11:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The most amazing thing to me about the article is that there is an audience that supports this industry. I don't get it with the hollywood gossip scene.
A close second to the above is that anyone ever gave a damn...not to mention all the damn took to build this thread.
zoinks.
38. Posted by billy | November 20, 2005 11:57 AM |
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Posted on November 20, 2005 11:57
39. Posted by Cindy Walton | November 20, 2005 4:19 PM | Score: <