News Briefs

- The Late Show with David Letterman will rerun the recent interview with Johnny Depp on Wednesday, Sept. 6. The original air date for this interview was 7/27/06.

- YourHub.com has a story about a digital artist whose dark, gothic artwork has been purchased by the likes of Stephen King, Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp.

- Ananova (and a multitude of other sites) is reporting that Orlando Bloom will appear in a comedy sketch for the second season of the UK series “Extras”.

He plays a vain actor who frankly can’t believe that an extra, Maggie (played by Ashley Jensen), doesn’t fancy the pants off him.

Orly tells her the ladies were all over him on the Pirates Of The Caribbean set -much preferring him to heart-throb Johnny Depp.

“It’s my looks that all the girls fawn over,” he oozes. “Nobody was bothered about Johnny on set. Johnny freak, I make art-house movies and have stupid scissors for hands. Willy Wonka - more like Johnny W****r.”

The key words here are “plays” and “comedy sketch”. Apparently a lot of people are reading this story as a true interview or something, so I just wanted to clear up that little misunderstanding. It’s a joke! LOL

- The Salt Lake Tribune includes Johnny Depp on a list of celebrities who visited Utah in the month of August, although they don’t elaborate on why he was there. Must be a slow news day in Utah.

- icWales reports on rumors that Johnny is thinking of buying a house in the small Welsh town of Crickhowell.