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Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo: Courtesy of Disney According to London's unfailingly reliable Daily Mail , Disney is paying Johnny Depp the totally reasonable sum of $56 million for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 , the biggest up-front payment to any actor in movie history (Tom Hanks was recently paid a measly $50 million for his forthcoming Angels & Demons , which is now completely embarrassing). "It's a lot of swag but there's...
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Celebslam (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Johnny Depp to star in fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie Johnny Depp has agreed to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow for a fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. His salary? $56 million. As in dollars. $56 million dollars. The sum eclipses Tom Hanks’ record payday 0f $50 million for Sony’s [...]
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Famecrawler (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Super celebrity and father Johnny Depp is reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in another "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie and the man doesn't come cheap. Previously, Tom Hanks held the record payout for a movie - he's being paid $58 million for the sequel to "The Da Vinci Code," "Angels and Demons." But step back in awe at Johnny's sequel paycheck. Depp is getting $64 million for a 4th "Pirates"...
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Federal Baseball (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
And now, to once again quote Tom Hanks' character, G.H. Dorr, Ph. D, from the Coen Brothers' underappreciated remake of the Peter Sellers' comedy, "T he Ladykillers" , it's time , " to flog a horse that if not at this point dead is in mortal danger of expirin'" , and once again look in on Aaron Crow , the Nationals' #1 Draft Pick That Wasn't and see how things have been going for the former University...
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Technoccult (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
“Dan Brown’s hugely popular book, and the subsequent film starring Tom Hanks, depicted the Roman Catholic order as a religious cult which would stop at nothing – including murder – to cover up the ‘truth’ that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and had a child. Most [...]
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Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Forrest Gump (1994) was perhaps the last movie where I really enjoyed Tom Hanks, in all his natural, witty, charismatic likability. After that he sort of shut off. Forrest sees only the goodness in people. In his company even the most desperate slowly come to feel they're like in the presence of an angel, the friend you always wanted to have, someone who knows you meant no harm. Without really having...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Five years ago, Gil Kenan was an unknown university student with a video camera; today he is an Oscar-nominated director strolling around one of the largest indoor film sets ever made. And it's his.
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Soulfull Vibes (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Disney has offered Johnny Depp $55 million to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a 4th Pirates of the Caribbean film. That payday surpasses the previous Hollywood record for a single performance, formerly held by Tom Hanks, who is currently receiving $49 million for Angels & Demons, the follow-up to The DaVinci Code. That’s a lot of swag, but there’s only one Johnny Depp, and with some $2.7...
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Quotes of the Day (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood."
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ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
"It's gonna be big, I tell ya, big! The party of the century. And we're gonna have TV on the Radio as the wedding band, and Tom Hanks, and Jeff Daniels, and David Byrne, and Hannibal Lecter, and Toni...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
There's a scene in A League of Their Own when manager Jimmy Dugan, played by Tom Hanks, talks about how difficult baseball can be: "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
There's a scene in A League of Their Own when manager Jimmy Dugan, played by Tom Hanks, talks about how difficult baseball can be: "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
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io9 (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
newVideoPlayer("/tomhanksember_io9.flv", 611, 301,""); Producer of The City of Ember Tom Hanks gives us all an inside peek into the underground city that was filmed where the Titanic (not James... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Typical liberal - let someone else do your dirty work and bitch about it while they are saving your ass.
Jack Kennedy - (not a member) - 05/10/2008