If Jack Sparrow were an economist
vere loqui (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The economics of pirating , care of Scientific American .
Jack Sparrow
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Captain Jack Sparrow Has Pirates Who Do That
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Guy on date : Everything in my kitchen is from Crate and Barrel. Girl on date : Oh. Guy : My cups, my saucers, my plates, I have an espresso machine... Girl : Wow. Guy : Yeah, but I haven't mopped the floor in over a month. --Broadway & Houston Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-11-29
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Johnny Depp Gets Felt Up By The ‘Hand Of Dante’
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Would it kill Johnny Depp to make a nice, normal, romantic comedy? Probably. So instead, Depp continues to find oddball films to counter-balance his blockbuster turns as Captain Jack Sparrow and his obligatory appearances in every Tim Burton movie. The latest film to find Depp attached to star is In the ...
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Fighting Pirates With High-Seas High-Tech
TechChuck (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Cannons and cutlasses might have kept the pirates of yesteryear at bay. But not so for modern-day pirates, who troll the seas with GPS systems, satellite phones and rocket-propelled grenades. As piracy off the coast of Somalia escalates to unprecedented levels, ships are turning to a growing arsenal of high-tech, nonlethal weapons to protect themselves. Even the sly Jack Sparrow of the...
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Somalia's modern day pirates in high seas life of crime
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The pirates who pursued and opened fire on a U.S. cruise ship off the Somali coast earlier this week bear little resemblance to the swashbuckling buccaneers made popular by Johnny Depp in the role of Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Johnny Depp to make a film about Dante's Divine Comedy
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Dante himself. His purchse of the novel does not mean the actor, lauded for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, has given up big Hollywood blockbusters. Next year he can be seen in director Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland playing the Mad Hatter; he is also said to be considering a part in The Lone Ranger, in which he will play the masked cowboy's...
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Fighting Pirates With High Seas High-Tech
ABC News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... turning to a growing arsenal of high-tech, nonlethal weapons to protect themselves. Even the sly Jack Sparrow of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise would have a tough time contending with the earsplitting sirens, pain rays and radiation systems ships are starting to deploy. The number of attacks in the seas off East Africa has doubled in the past year, according to the International...
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Johnny Depp Circles The Rings Of Hell
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Ah, Johnny Depp, staying predictably off-the-wall even after he's seemingly sold his soul to Disney for the rest of his life. The man who will reprise Jack Sparrow for the fourth Pirates movie will also star in a completely nutso take on Dante's Divine Comedy, titled In the Hand of Dante. The movie will be based on a novel by Nick Tosches.Depp, according to , will play Tosches, who is...
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Empire Names the 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... list, but some of these characters are still a surprise. Tyler Durden at number one? Captain Jack Sparrow in the top ten? Gollum? Hans Gruber? Crazy. On the other hand, it’s nice to see The Dude, Amelie, and Quint make the top fifty. The top fifty are listed below: 1. Tyler Durden - Fight Club 2. Darth Vader - the Star Wars hexology 3. The Joker - The Dark Knight 4. Han Solo - the...
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Pitt's Durden is best character ever
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... ten was rounded out by Indiana Jones, The Dude from The Big Lebowski, Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow, Ellen Ripley from the Alien movies, and The Godfather icon Vito Corleone. Share... • • Next story...REESE WITHERSPOON's latest film FOUR CHRISTMASES has ended QUANTUM OF SOLACE's four...
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Brad Pitt - Pitts Durden Is Best Film Character Ever
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... ten was rounded out by Indiana Jones, The Dude from The Big Lebowski, Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow, Ellen Ripley from the Alien movies, and The Godfather icon Vito Corleone.
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Somalia--same as it ever was
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... attention back in the mid-1980s. I'm thinking another Live Aid with Johnny Depp MC'ing in full Jack Sparrow regalia. Global warming can't be helping with this continuing drought that now puts about 20m at dire risk in a region spread across Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Already aid workers are seeing kids start to die off in numbers from malnutrition-related illnesses and infections....
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Tyler Durden Tops Greatest Movie Character List
Cool Aggregator (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... 2. Darth Vader 3. The Joker 4. Han Solo 5. Hannibal Lecter 6. Indiana Jones 7. The Dude 8. Captain Jack Sparrow 9. Ellen Ripley 10. Vito Corleone 11. James Bond 12. John McClane 13. Gollum 14. The Terminator 15. Ferris Bueller 16. Neo 17. Hans Gruber 18. Travis Bickle 19. Jules Winnfield 20. Forrest Gump 21. Michael Corleone 22. Ellis “Red” Redding 23. Harry Callahan 24. Ash 25. Yoda...
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Nathan added the journal post 'Tradition....Tradition!'
Latest Activity on DisFriends (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Well, in a previous entry, i said that its tradition for my inlaws, wfie and I to go down Splash Mountain first for the new year.Other traditions...hmmm... I always tend to talk like Jack Sparrow in New Orleans.ANd I always get a character sketch when we go :P
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Want to Appear in a Twilight Video?
Twilight Lexicon (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... Johnny Depp impressions of all the characters he’s ever done. Including Edward Scissorhands, Jack Sparrow, Ed Wood, Willy Wonka, etc. What does this have to do with Twilight? Well in most of their episodes, one of the Johnny Depp characters usually crosses paths with another movie such as Terminator, Back to The Future, Beetlejuice, Star Wars, and most recently, the Dark Knight. But...
