Johnny Depp

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Johnny Depp plays a booze-addled reporter with a career decision to make in "The Rum Diary." (Associated Press)

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Johnny Depp (left) as Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean." (Associated Press)

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Actor Johnny Depp, left, poses with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, as she is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, April 1, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Johnny Depp

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Johnny Depp arrives for the Golden Globe Awards Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

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Johnny Depp accepts the award for favorite movie actor at the People's Choice Awards on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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In this magazine cover image released by Vanity Fair, actor Johnny Depp is shown on the cover of the January 2011 issue of "Vanity Fair." (AP Photo/Vanity Fair)

In this Handout image made available by Meridian School on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, U.S. actor Johnny Depp, left, holds a letter from 5 year old Bea Delap, right, inviting him to attend her school assembly. Depp, dressed as the character Jack Sparrow from the Pirate of the Caribbean films, attended the school Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, after receiving the letter from the school girl in which she declared herself and her classmates to be budding pirates and inviting him into school to support a mutiny. (AP Photo/Meridian School, HO)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Johnny Depp plays the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland," his fourth movie with director Tim Burton (below). "I certainly trust him implicitly. I would do anything, try anything that he wanted me to," Mr. Depp says of the director. Mr. Burton's girlfriend and frequent star, Helen Bonham Carter, says he and Mr. Depp work well together "because they're kids."