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I got Sweeney Todd and Fortysomething on DVD last week. I'm sure everyone knows about Sweeney Todd already because every Johnny Depp fan talked about it and we are large in number.
Still... SQUEEEEEEE I finally own that crazy assed messed up musical of win.

Also I bought Fortysomething because Hugh Laurie is the main actor, it sounded good, and Stephen Fry makes an appearance. It's even better than I thought it would be. It's hilarious and odd. I don't even know how to describe it.

I got Blackpool in the mail yesterday. It's a bizarre-darkly funny-camp-semi-musical miniseries. David Tennant (the Doctor in Doctor Who), David Morrissey, and Sarah Parish are in it. I've already watched all of it. I've been waiting to get it for a few weeks because I bought it on ebay from Austrailia. 

Here's a clip (not mine) of David Tennant in it with David Morrissey. They're threatening eachother and dancing and singing to "These Boots are Made for Walking":



Also here's an awesome vid that someone made lately using Doctor Who clips and the song "One Day More" from the musical Les Miserables.




BBC America has put up the audio commentary for Doctor Who Season 3 episode "Last of the Timelords" to be downloaded.
It's the audiocommentary that didn't get on the US or Canada DVDs. It has David Tennant, John Barrowman, and Freema on it. It's so awesome, I already downloaded it. They're hilarious together. 

Sweenie Todd is going to happen and it will be another Tim Burton and Johnny Depp movie. (SQUEEE!)

It's now official. Martin Levy, a spokesman for DreamWorks, who are co-producing with Warner Bros, states Depp will do his own singing in Sweeney Todd. Filming starts Feb 5, 2007.

You can read more here.

I’m so tired about people complaining about Johnny, or in some fans cases his role of the homicidal barber.

He has played psychotic CIA agents with no eyes brilliantly, and yet they are worried about watching Johnny play this?

The only reasonable worries that people have is if Johnny can sing well enough. First of all John Waters kept Johnny’s original singing audition tapes for Cry-Baby because he thought they were great. The only reason he didn’t use Johnny’s voice was because it wasn’t “Elvis enough” so we know he’s a good singer in one genre of music.

Then Sondheim said he was going to make Johnny take a voice test for this film. Either Johnny passed or he’s in major singing lessons for this role. Never forget that Tim Burton is also a perfectionist. He’s going to want great singing in this one.

I for one am not going to continuously worry about this. I have faith in his acting, and that’s the most important thing to me. As for his voice, I think that it will all work out. None of the fans are in control anyway so stop crying, and just lean back and enjoy the ride.