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LET’S KILL THE OSCARS: MY VOTE FOR JOHNNY DEPP

By | January 2004

So in the sprit of George C., my choice as Best Actor for 2003 is someone who has no chance in hell of winning. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl…”

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