In the new book “The Obamas,” New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, writes about a secret White House cover-up. What officials at the nation’s capital tried to keep under wraps wasn’t classified military information, but apparently a 2009 Halloween party attended by the cast of Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland:

White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged.

I can see why Kitty Kelly, whose claim to fame is being the author of unauthorized biographies of Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, the Bush family and Oprah, skipped this one. There may be a juicy story lurking somewhere in the Obama White House, but this isn’t it. For me, the picture brought an unexpected bout of 2009 nostalgia. Read more…

Johnny Depp has made a career out of playing adorably eccentric characters like Edward Scissorhands, notorious film director Ed Wood and Captain Jack Sparrow. It makes sense then that his dream role would be to play a real-life adorable eccentric. Read more…

It looks like this weekend’s box office will be going into overtime because it’s too close to call. Ice Age had a slight edge over Transformers, but they were about equal, each making around $42.5 M. And while it remains unclear who won the top spot over this 4th of July weekend, one thing is for certain: this is the summer of Read more…

It’s been over a year since the last Johnny Depp flick Sweeney Todd, and this 4th of July weekend he’s back playing another twisted criminal (minus the song and dance, though). Depp stars as legendary gangster John Dillinger in Michael Mann‘s long awaited crime drama Public Enemies. Also on board is Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis. I have one question: Does this man ever take a break? He had Read more…