Depp of all trades
Question: I know Johnny Depp is multitalented: He can paint, write poetry, act and play at least one instrument. But can he sing? I'm asking because I recently watched Cry-Baby and wondered whether that was him performing the songs.
Answer:
Although I've seen countless references to Johnny Depp's singing in Cry-Baby (1990), the numbers his character performs in the film – "King Cry Baby," "Doin' Time for Bein' Young," "High School Hellcats" and "Teardrops Are Falling" — are sung by roots rocker James Intveld (billed as "John"), whose current credits include touring with the Blasters and costarring in the upcoming movie Chrystal with Billy Bob Thornton. Intveld released his first, self-titled album in 1996. The vocals for
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The only place Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's Wedding Crashers couldn't sneak into this weekend was the No. 1 spot at the box office. The comedy's $33.2 million opening (while impressive for R-rated fare) was bested by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which raked in a sweet $55.4 million — despite Johnny Depp's somewhat disturbing channeling of Michael Jackson as Willy Wonka.
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John Waters
Before he played charming oddballs in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands and, well, insert most of his acting résumé here, Johnny Depp was your garden-variety teen idol on Fox's 21 Jump Street. Back in 1990, cult film director John Waters gave Depp his big-screen break — and a chance to send up his Tiger Beat image — in Cry-Baby. And since the Cry-Baby Director's Cut DVD is out today, TVGuide.com has a chance to touch base with Waters, for some "I knew Depp when" reminiscing and chatter about the rest of his freaky film exploits.
TVGuide.com: Cry-Baby was perhaps the most mainstream or "ready for prime time," of all your many wacky movies.John Waters: I disagree. Pecker is probably my nicest movie. Just 'cause Cry-Baby is a musical, people forget that I have a very dysfunctional, disturbed family in it. I have an ingenue who drinks her own tears becaus
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His 21 Jump Street crony, Johnny Depp, now headlines blockbusters and vies for Oscars, while his own body of work tends to bypass the multiplex altogether. But despite the fact that his smoldering stare and intense presence should have made him a matinee idol as well, Richard Grieco doesn't give a damn. "Even when the films I've done haven't been good, they've been good characters," he explains to TV Guide Online, "so I'll still take them."
In the Sci Fi thriller Phantom Force (a spin-off of the FX-citing Interceptor Force flicks, premiering Saturday night at 9 pm/ET), the early-'90s teen heartthrob has himself another doozy of a role: a G-man combatting demons of both the literal and figurative variety. "In a lot of ways, I relate to the darker characters," allows the frequent screen heavy, who plays a hit man opposite Burt Reynolds and Charles Durning in the upcoming comedy Forget About It. "Even my writing and pa
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