Heath Ledger was just six weeks away from finishing up his last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, when he was found dead earlier this week. The film’s director Terry Gilliam is hoping that Johnny Depp will step in to finish the film.

A studio source said: “There is a point in the film when Heath falls through a magic mirror. He could change into another character after that and that is where Johnny would come in.

“It’s a weird, fantasy, time-travel movie so Heath’s character could easily change appearance. It would be a poignant moment.

“Johnny’s not working at the moment so everyone is praying he will do it.”

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Johnny Depp on the cover of Esquire. He is pictured with director Tim Burton who he has worked with a number of times. You’ll be able to see their most recent collaboration in a theater near you in the form of Sweeney Todd. Depp plays the title role bringing cheer to the Christmas season as a psychotic barber who kills his customers and sends them to his downstairs neighbor who serves them up for a tasty dinner in her restaurant. Yum. Great Christmas flick. But then, its pretty much par for the course when these two do a movie together.

Here’s some photos of Johnny Depp leaving a hotel in London. Exciting, right? I found the photos at Dana’s Dirt. She wonders why some women find him attractive. My answer to that is that some of us like guys who don’t spend all their time in the mirror. Another might be illustrated by the gift he just bought his long-time lover. He bought her a vineyard just to let her know how important she is to him. That kind of guy can dress any way he wants!

Tim Burton’s latest film is due in theaters on December 21st. Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The trailer (at the website and posted below) looks like it will be devilish fun! You can find out more about the movie with a visit Sweeney Todd on MySpace and a visit the official Sweeney Todd movie site.

Depp HAS to be one of the best actors of our generation. He is so versatile and you actually forget that he’s Johnny Depp in the movie, but start seeing him as the character he is playing. That’s not something I can say about most actors. Sometimes their public persona overwhelms the character. I don’t find that to be true of Johnny Depp. He turns into whatever character he is playing and does it so exquisitely that he doesn’t appear to be acting.

Of course, unless he’s playing Captain Jack Sparrow, which is MADE for vamping! I don’t think Johnny Depp and Captain Jack Sparrow can be separated. Can you imagine anyone else playing that role?!? No. It would be blasphemous! Anyone who ever reads my writing knows that I’m secretly in love with Capt. Jack Sparrow, but that’s beside the point. There are so many special moments throughout the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I love the first part where you see Captain Jack Sparrow standing majestically on the bow of the unseen ship beneath him. As the camera pulls out and you can see more of his surroundings you see that his ship in sinking and he’s barely got a plant to stand on. Still, he stands with dignity and pride as he barely limps into port. Perfection!

How can you not love a pirate with this kind of honest openness ….

Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid.

Depp has teamed up with Tim Burton quite a few times and generally plays off-beat characters. In The Astronauts Wife he played an astronaut turned alien who had everyone fooled except his long suffering wife who suspected he was not who he was when he left on his last mission. His devious portrayal is almost convincing to the audience even though you know that has to be what happened, until at a moment when his wife is trying to get information to a scientist and as she comes up out of the subways station her astronaut/alien husband is there. He doesn’t look at her, but he stops her and you know that he knows she’s there. With just the expression on his face you know that evil lies just beneath the surface regardless of the pleasant and charming expression on his face.

All in all, I still have to say that my favorite Johnny Depp moment is the opening scene of the first of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Its just so hard to say. There are so many good moments that stand out in his films.

Now we have another one to look forward to and in just a couple of weeks. It’ll be great fun to see another Johnny Depp character in Sweeney Todd over the Christmas holidays!

Johnny Depp is buying a penthouse loft at the newly converted Eastern Columbia building. I don’t know if that means he’s actually moving to L.A. after his many years of living in France. More likely, he’s just getting a place in L.A. for convenience.

Nevertheless, he’s making his way to L.A.

The art deco Eastern Columbia website describes it’s lofts as classic, sophisticated, elegant, luxurious and urbane. Which they should be considering that Captain Jack Sparrow, I mean Johnny Depp just paid $2M for his loft there.

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I never understood the whole tattoo thing. I change my hair color and style on a regular basis because I get tired of it. What happens when you get tired of the tattoo? That’s what I don’t understand. It’s PERMANENT.

Obviously, I’m the odd person out with that way of thinking.

The worst is getting your current lovers name tattooed on your body. WHAT ARE PEOPLE THINKING! Well, when the loves gone, the name is still permanently embedded in your skin. I have a sneaking feeling any new lovers will not like that one little bit. Not to mention, every time you see the tattoo it will remind you of the *mistake*!!!

Here are how a few celebrities have dealt with the problem.

Pamela Anderson’s ‘Tommy’ tattoo became ‘Mommy’. That was an easy one to solve. I wonder if she’ll have it changed back now that there are rumors they are reuniting.

Johnny Depp’s tattoo for Winona Ryder, ‘Winona Forever’ was transformed to ‘Wino Forever’. Then he changed it altogether to ‘Betty Sue’, his mother’s name.

Carmen Electra had her wedding date to David Navarro tattooed on her wrist, she’s just changing dates.

David Navarro had his wedding date to Carmen Electra tattooed to his chest. He’s leaving it saying it’s a part of his history.

Angelina Jolie had Billy Bob Thornton scrubbed off and replaced him with the birthplaces of her children. I wonder what she did with the vial of his blood?

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