Johnny Depp: I Can't Stay In Riot-Ravaged France [Drudge]

contactmusic.com via Drudge ^ | 11/18/2005 | Chrissy Illey

[lainie]

[Hollywood star JOHNNY DEPP is so shocked by the riots raging through France, he's considering abandoning his home in the country.]

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."

[Hildy]

He said something dumb about the US, but he did give a very sincere apology with an explanation that made sense. At least he apologized.

[Howlin]

Oh shoot......I had the wrong sleaze, didn't I???

[M Kehoe]

Who or what is a "Paradis?"

5.56mm

[b9]

Oh that's good.
Johnny Depp loves his wife and fam...whatever else may be said.

[lainie]

I turned in early and never figured this thread would have this many replies. Y'all have some opinions on Johnny Depp? ha!

I've said it before, I'll say it again: His countenance awakens something in me -- something I can only describe as a desire to surreptitiously stealth my way to him from behind, jumping him and holding him down. So I can get to work with my wire brush and bucket of disinfectant.

[Howlin]

I get all those metrosexuals confused. They all look alike to me. :-)

[b9]

:::chuckle:::
I liked Depp in "Finding Neverland" with the amazing little Freddie Highmoor.

And he was yummy in "Chocolat." Mmmmm

Jude Law -- yuck, except for "Gattica" (sp?)

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

I believe he went to Libya, and other Muslim countries.

I recall it was Cuba. He went there as a socialist believing in the "socialist utopia dream". After realizing the "dream" was in fact a nightmare he came back as a conservative Republican.

[Milhous]

Johnny Depp Quotes

>> Johnny Depp Trivia

• "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."

• "America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. 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."

• "Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was no anti-American sentiment. In fact, it was just the opposite. I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful."

• "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."

- information from IMDB.com

[Clara Lou]

Like so many, he needs to stick to his day job and keep his mouth shut about everything else.

[FFIGHTER]

They let the fugitive Bobby Fisher in, so I thought Johnny wouldn't be much of a stretch.

[b9]

At least he apologized.

He's a work in progress, like the rest of us.

[tertiary01]

He probably considers himself a citizen of the world. Only pausing long enough to live in any given country during the good times and fleeing when the real men of that country would be called upon to defend it. He's only a taker not a giver.

[04-Bravo]

I hope Depp, Palthrow, and Madonna stay in Europe.

And I agree with you that Baldwin, Babs, and the others should join them.

Except for Sean Penn. I want him to live in Iran or North Korea.

[Hildy]

As I was rereading this thread it occurred to me that the Dixie Chicks totally lost their careers, didn't they. That one sentence she uttered in Germany cost them so much. You never see them...it's like they never existed. I know they're planning on a comeback, but I just don't know who their audience would be. Country is done with them. Young girls listening to a girl with a fiddle? I don't know.

[PigRigger]

wonder if this DUmmie will ever put 2 and 2 together?

[bert]

Perhaps northern Quebec?

[b9]

Interesting comparison, the Dixie Chicks' nosedive.
Natalee never showed the least bit of humility, did she?
FYI her husband Adrian forgot-his-last-name is the new lawyer on Desperate Housewives.

[Tench_Coxe]

Wouldn't it be a kicker if he was denied entry to the US?

[Hildy]

I don't watch that show...is he good?