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It’s all been a bit quiet on the JDOCD front lately. If you are new here and you don’t have a clue what I am talking about then all is explained back in 2005.
It’s not like, she assures me, the disease is waning here at Swordfish Towers. Any suggestion I may make on that score meets with one of those stares reminiscent of Paddington Bear. It’s more like it has gone underground and I don’t get to hear so much of what is going on. But, of course the next big event in the life of any JDOCD sufferer is looming with the imminent release of Public Enemies which premieres in London Monday 29th June. (Here is a link to the official website and if you can sit through the time it takes to load up then you must surely be infected).
My wife – as my posts over the years on this subject have detailed – has been to every London Depp premiere since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So now I am going to impart some shocking news. She is wavering. That’s right – she might give it a miss. And if that isn’t a clear sign of gradual recovery from this debilitating ailment then I don’t know what is.
I thought perhaps I had hit on it the other day when she came waltzing in from the shops with a copy of the Vanity Fair magazine pictured above. See – one of the claims made by women with this disorder – and probably some men too but let’s not go there – is that Depp still looks the same as he always did. He doesn’t age, they say, but retains those youthful looks. Ha, thought I, catching sight of the magazine and holding it up triumphantly declared “look… wrinkles”!
She looked at me with sad eyes, a sigh and a slow shake of the head and then looked back at the picture. “Yes…’ she agreed. “Aren’t they cute?”
The bastard.
She’ll be there !
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Andy that is funny!! And yes.. they ARE cute!! Even the classic 1920’s cars get dings.. guess he does too..Funny lil’ worl’ ain’t it?
Hi Kim
Spoken like a true victim!
Yes – I know. My wrinkles are just…. wrinkles.
heeheeheehee!
I felt the same way about Pierce Brosnan- I think he might even look BETTER now than in the old Remington Steele days!
Very interesting to see the other side of the Depp Effect. Johnny Depp has wrinkles?! Say it isn’t so!
Oh dear Andy. Perhaps it’s time for a new page on our site. The “aging” JDOCD’er. Or perhaps, “when the symptoms start to fade” — there is hope after all. Give your wife a big hug for us.
They are bastards. I can’t understand why the missus likes Rafa Nadal. She used to like Lew Diamond Phillips. What is it with her and men who look like Apache Indians?
But don’t many of us men suffer from a disease caught from POTC? Keira Knightley, Cor! although speaking personally I would need to graft Dawn French’s bottom on for complete perfection.
xoggoth: Ah…. don’t get me started on Keira….
Janie of Utah: No one seems to care….!
(Have you changed your monika?)
Jeannine: Ah yes – old, grey and distinguished. Just like me
Ahahahahaha!!!! When hubby brought me home that magazine, I HAD to think of your wife… I wasn’t sure if you got that mag there and was sorely tempted to send her a copy.
Yes, even slight wrinkles on that man are lovely.
Sorry.
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Another brilliant observation, Andy!
But yeah … they ARE the loveliest wrinkles in the Universe.
And they suit him so well.
Hahaha!
Poor Andy!
You are great!
(By the way, do you have discussions at home about the new thingies Johnny is wearing on a necklace? The small golden ring and the blue stone?? SURELY you must have heard about that …whether you want or not ….)
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Please send my best regards to your wife!
I love your blog…
I just stumbled on to it via DeppImpact. I have never laughed so much, I know the symptoms, the irrational behavoiur as I too am a sufferer…but I had never really considered how odd it must be looking at my behaviour when you are not afflicted.
I do hope your wife appreciates your patience. My other half is not so tolerant, Johnny has been banished. No DVD’s allowed at home, no going to the movies, no contact with other sufferers and no pictures…at least that is what he believes.
He should be more grateful, last year we did a world tour and all the place he loved staying at, visiting and eating at were all connected to the man…but he lives in sweet oblivion.
Alas I am destined never to meet Johnny…I live on the earths backside… a place he visited very briefly once in the 80’s. I have been where he has been but my timing so far has been off.. I was devasted to discover that I would arrive in Chicago two months after he finished filming PE.
Good on you for being such a sweet and supportive man. Tell your wife to give you a kiss for me.