News Briefs

- Hollywood Reporter offers an article about a strange little movie called “This Filthy World” starring Cry-Baby director John Waters:

John Waters has come not only to pine for vanished decadence but to dream up new transgressions for a world with few remaining taboos. He’s doing it for the children — the college kids, to be precise, who have come to see the entertaining one-man show captured in this performance documentary.

Now, if that’s not entertaining enough, we also have this little gem:

“…Or of the ceremony he staged when protege Traci Lords decided to tie the knot, and he needed to be baptized to qualify for a church wedding. At a stolen altar, with a clergy license obtained for Waters by Johnny Depp’s people, “The Pope of Trash” cleansed the porn legend’s sins and (from the sound of it) threw in a little therapy for free…”

LOL! This sounds just bizarre enough to be really, really good.

- The Log has a report on sightings of the Black Pearl, the beginning of POTC3 filming, and Johnny Depp’s autograph signing in San Pedro and Redondo Beach.

- Dominican Today reports Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is poised to hit the $1 billion dollar mark on Friday, Sept. 8.

- Newstatesman.com reports Johnny Depp is one of several artists who will appear in a music video for Johnny Cash’s posthumous album American V: a hundred highways. Interestingly, Kate Moss is also confirmed for the same project.