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2004-05-22T01:46:14Z

Orlando Bloom is Love

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2004-05-18T12:18:33Z

article about johnny

2004-03-14T23:27:48Z

happiness finds johnny depp

Happiness finds Johnny Depp
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By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY

He watches hours of cartoons with his children, has taken up running and is working on his French to better communicate with his companion's parents. With his fine-boned good looks, longish dark hair and slightly boho demeanor, he could still pass for 25, but Johnny Depp (news) is 40. And his days of drugs, drink and trashing hotel rooms are a thing of the past. (Related photo gallery: See photos from Johnny Depp's film career)

Now, he sports three colorful bracelets made by his 5-year-old daughter Lily-Rose. He seems settled, content and, well, grown up. "I just kind of stumbled around for 35 years," Depp says. "And then when my daughter arrived, it was like 'Now, I see.' Suddenly everything else is just kind of shavings, morsels, little tidbits. And this is what it's all about. This is real life. Boy, it couldn't have come at a better time."

His new movie, Secret Window, opens Friday, capping a pretty great time indeed for Depp. He's happily settled down with Vanessa Paradis (news), a French pop singer, and their children, Lily-Rose and Jack, 23 months. He divides his time between homes in France and Los Angeles. He won a Screen Actors Guild (news - web sites) award last month for his staggering, swaggering buccaneer in Pirates of the Caribbean. Though he lost the Oscar to Sean Penn (news), there was a sense that Depp had come awfully close, based on the fact that the onetime bad boy who's still taking chances is now one of Hollywood's most respected actors.

His performance as the irresistibly silly swashbuckler Capt. Jack Sparrow was the major reason for the success of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, which made $305 million. "You put a genius in the middle of a pirate movie and it becomes effervescent," says Gary Ross, who directed another summer hit, Seabiscuit. " It would have made $100 million without Johnny Depp." Depp will revisit Captain Jack for the Pirates sequel, due in theaters in 2005. He fused the cartoon Pepe Le Pew with the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards (news) to fashion the slightly mincing, charismatic Captain Jack. "What I hoped was to create a character that could be as fun and as interesting to a 5-year-old as it could be to the most jaded, hoity-toity intellectual," he says. Richards had no idea he was being studied by his friend until just before the movie was released. "He sent me a message to cover his (behind)," Richards says. "I've known Johnny for a couple of years, and he'd always pay for dinner. Now I realize that was his way of paying me for modeling."

Depp's voice is soft and smoky. As he talks he casually sweeps up his bangs and puts his hair in a ponytail in one smooth move. He asks permission to smoke. "I cut down, I'll have you know," he says. "I cut down drastically. After all these years, I've finally figured it out. It's really pointless." He has stumbled on a new way to relieve stress: Running. "I started working with this guy I had trained with when I did Donnie Brasco. He said every human being should be able to run for 30 minutes. In any emergency, you should be able to pick up your kid and run, as fast you can, for a good length of time. And it just made sense to me."

As his life has grown calmer and more conventional, he still finds an outlet for outlandish behavior in his work. This week he began filming The Libertine, in which he plays a debauched, brilliant poet, John Wilmot, in a Restoration drama co-starring John Malkovich (news) and fellow Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (news) (In America). In June he takes on the seminal role of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, teaming with Tim Burton (news) for the fourth time. Later this year, he'll play Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in Neverland.

In Secret Window, a psychological thriller based on a Stephen King story, Depp plays a blocked novelist. "I'd never done a film like this. I read David Koepp's screenplay, and it really kept me on the edge of my seat," he says. "Also, it's nice to go from one extreme like Captain Jack, where the volume's kind of on 11, as it were, then go to something very subdued and internal."

Though it has been only a few months since Depp's last starring role in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, audiences can't seem to get enough of him. "He's in this zone that every now an then an actor hits, where the audience completely identifies with him," says Koepp, who also directed Secret Window. "We saw it at the test screening. With the first shot of the movie, a close-up of Johnny in a car, the audience burst into applause."

Koepp admires Depp's edgy portrayals and the actor's integrity. "He's made choices that sort of float his boat and that's what people respect about him," Koepp says. "He's never seemed to pursue stardom." Depp was shooting Secret Window when Pirates opened, and Koepp said Depp was "bemused" by the surge of attention. "To have a performance acknowledged on this scale is something I'm not used to," Depp concedes. "Sometimes five people see my movies, sometimes 20. It feels a little strange because I really didn't do anything different than I've ever done." Depp says the Oscar nomination was a great honor but beside the point. He's a big reader and recently spent time skulking in British libraries doing research for his Libertine role. "More than anything, I love being with my family," he says. "I'm like a total homebody, just hanging out with my kids."

Depp's comments to GQ about drugs and children provoked some outrage. Depp sets the record straight: "The journalist asked me, 'What about when your kids get to the age where they want to experiment with drugs?' All I was saying was I pray that they don't. Who wants their kids on drugs? All I was trying to say was that if it gets to that point, if they're going to do it, I don't want them going out on the street and getting something illegally that could put them in trouble and could kill them, because it could be laced with something. "And all I was talking about specifically was marijuana. Rather than have them go out on the street and get some nasty, potentially fatal stuff, I would rather say, 'Look, this is marijuana. I know where it came from. And if you really need to try it, try it here in the house and be safe.' They immediately misconstrued it, like I was prepared to go out and score all kinds of drugs for my kids. It was just ludicrous."

As ludicrous as denying Depp's heartthrob appeal. Pirates brought him a new legion of fans - mostly young and female - typified by 13-year-old Oscar nominee and Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who said Depp was the one person she wanted to meet at the Oscars. For Secret Window, Depp insisted on looking disheveled, as a writer deserted by both his wife and his inspiration. When he spotted a torn, frayed bathrobe in an early costume fitting, "he lunged across the room and said 'This is it,' " Koepp says. "He wanted to wear it for the whole movie." With the robe, nerdy spectacles and a severe case of bed head, Depp pulls off a witty performance.

"You can rumple him, but you can't make him unattractive," Koepp says. "You can try, but it won't happen."

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2004-03-07T23:06:38Z

Orlando Is SEX.

road to recovery lessons learned!

2004-03-04T15:36:13Z

I know what I'm doing now thankgod! No more snackage, sensible SBDing. No more attempts at fatfasts when I can lose so quickly on my diet. I feel damn good. Things are on the up. I'm so in control right now it ain't funny!

FOOD IN ROOM!

2004-02-28T01:34:58Z

So I totally get why the WHOLE of february has been such a complete and utter fucking washout.
Basically 1st of Feb someone stole my food which got me to break into my stock. Since then for the past 28 days, the past month I've been eating chocolate and high sugar food non-stop. A month long binge. I've put on about half a stone.

In January (2nd-19th) I lost from 9half to 9. Then thanks to fatfast and generally sticking to my diet I got down to 124lb.

Now I weigh 132lb again. That's right 132. My aim is this:

March to April 2004. One month to lose 14lb, simple as this. 132lb to 118lb.
Beginning of Trinity Term 2004 - 112lb.

LEAP YEAR

2004-02-28T01:20:23Z

Special day for special change. Tomorrow, sunday the 29th of Feb. That's the beginning.

update!

2004-02-06T02:01:26Z

So I've pigged out for the last time. Just have to remember what happened with this one, stuff coming out of both ends...literally! If I pig out I know I'll feel the urge to purge and I'm not going there again, not ever!

Things I need to buy: More eatnatural bars, 5 more to replenish the stock. Fruit, Nut, Seed bars. Altu Bars. Crunch bars and cookies.

Need: a freakin' lock box to keep those greedy bastards away!

plan

2004-02-05T13:37:27Z

So stick to my PHASE I for 2 weeks and hopefully this will get me down to the 118 I want to be.
Then move onto PHASE II, rather introduce fruit and seedbars etc...Stick to one 'serving' a day though. That continues til I get down to 112. Then move onto PHASE III.

REMEMBER CALORIES COUNT, think of ELLIE.

New Eating Plan

2004-02-05T13:32:59Z

My new eating plan:

Breakfast: omelette, fake 'frenchtoast', snack on chicken
Lunch: chicken stirfry/tuna
Dinner: as above then dessert
Snack: celery with low-fat homous

Dessert: low-fat ice cream, ricotta creme try and keep below 100 cals, soya milkshake. Focus on main foods keep sweet treats as that and most cals must come from normal food. One dessert period a day EVER!

StG - 118

Not allowed til 118: eatnatural bars, seed bars, woodies, apples, strawberries, yoghurt

Not allowed til 112: oatmeal, buying snacks, barley cereal, meringues

recent eating problems

2004-02-05T13:27:27Z

I haven't really been losing weight recently so I think I need to reassess exactly what I've been eating and target problem areas:

- Peanut Butter, I'm just eating way too much of this recently
- Eat Natural Bars. I've only had these for about 2 weeks and have already eaten about 10?
- Woodies, already eaten 10 of these, that's 1000kcal just from those in 2 days, that's awful!
- KitKats, Shortcake slice and digestives etc...

Basically haven't been sticking to SBD at all! Eaten lots of real chocolate and way too many woodies and EatNatural bars.
Need to start tracking diet strictly, ensuring that cals are kept low and that I keep treats to two a day at the very most. I think doing the fatfast actually screwed me over and put me off track so I need to get back now.

more boring food stuff

2004-02-04T16:57:42Z

400 - 4 Woodies (2 Hazlenut, 2 Orange)
150 - Low-fat IceCream
700? - Large bowl of veggies and chicken, plus salad and feta
60 - tsp of Peanut Butter
60 - Glass of soya milk with cocoa and splenda
50 - nuts, chicken snackage

total = 1420

good food for women

2004-02-02T12:43:45Z

10. Greens, Greens Good for the Heart (And other parts, too!) If you were force-fed vegetables as a child, you might be turned off greens – but these beleaguered and overlooked veggies offer an amazing amount of magnesium, calcium and potassium. And let's not forget the cancer-fighting phytochemicals, too! Add spring greens to a winter salad, stir curly kale into a hearty sausage and bean soup or try something new like chard to add colour to a pasta dish.

9. Bulgur is Better! Bulgur wheat is cracked whole wheat. The higher fibre content on this type of wheat helps you feel fuller for longer and can help prevent constipation, colon and breast cancers. It can also reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease. A versatile grain, it can be made into hot cereal or a delicious Tabbouleh with tomato, lemon juice and loadsa herbs!

8. A Head of the Pack! Cabbage is an astonishing source of beta carotene and folate. Bok choy too, enjoys the same benefits. Who knew that choosing a simple cabbage could make such a difference nutrient-wise? Folate is an important nutrient for preventing birth defects, as well as possibly protecting the body from cancer and heart disease, too.

7. Berry Interesting! Fibre-filled and packed with vitamin C, berries can help prevent cataracts and reduce the risk of infection because of their antioxidant rich properties. A 100g serving of strawberries has 77 milligrams of vitamin C. That's twice as much vitamin C then you’ll get from the same serving of grapefruit.

6. Guac This Way! Avocadoes have been ditched by dieters for a long time. The high fat content of one avocado may send shivers up a low fat dieter’s spine, but besides being an excellent source of folate and potassium, avocado's strength comes from its fat. The monounsaturated fats, particularly oleic acid found in avocadoes, can actually improve cholesterol levels in the body and help control diabetes. The fibre content is impressive too. One avocado has more fibre than a Weetabix biscuit!

5. Just Beet It! Pickled, boiled, roasted or in cake (yes cake...think carrot cake with beetroot!) beetroot has a definite place on everyone's plate. Beetroot are best when it comes to protecting against cancer and helping to build iron stores. They're big on folate, a B vitamin women can't get enough of - folate protects against birth defects. Grated into a salad or a hidden in fajitas (so the kids won't see them) there are easy ways to stay neat with beets.

4. Go Bananas! One lovely banana can help reduce blood pressure and relieve heartburn. How appealing is that? The fact is we eat an average of 27 pounds of bananas a year and that's no bad thing. You almost can't eat enough potassium-rich foods. And as far as tryptophan-rich foods go (a protein that converts to serotonin) bananas may help with depression. That certainly makes bananas one of the best of the bunch.

3. Tea Time! Skip the hob nobs and you may be on to something. Both green tea and black tea contain flavonoids that have excellent antioxidant properties. Studies have shown that regular tea consumption (up to three cups a day) decreases the risk of heart disease and stroke. A bonus to dieters: other studies have also shown tea to block some of the effects of fats after a heavy meal.

2. Mushroom Cloud! Mushrooms contain two important B vitamins: niacin and riboflavin. Both of these nutrients help your body form the enzymes needed to help the body metabolise more efficiently. Shitake mushrooms, found in both dried and fresh form, are a little more exotic than plain white button mushrooms, but are amazing immune boosting fungi. So much so that some scientists are testing shitakes against the HIV virus. One warning about mushrooms: in their raw state, they can contain toxins or carry salmonella. But cooked, they are a dieters dream with only 13 calories in 100g!

1. Hold the Onions! Hold them dear to your heart, that is. These lovelies have enough power to help raise HDL (good) cholesterol levels while lowering blood pressure. Feeling stuffy? Onions help relieve congestion and make breathing a little easier. Onion poultices were common treatment for colds in the old days. The very thing that makes your eyes water with onions (sulphur) have anti-inflammatory properties, too, making onions a natural healer as well.

yuck

2004-02-01T15:15:40Z

I can't believe people stole my food those barstards! Now I have the real test of my resolve. The food will be in my room but I can't touch it, that is the game.

Food Today:

- big bowl of chicken and vegetables
- cucumber and humous
- *alpini chocolate*
- *caramel shortcake*
- glass of soya milk and cocoa
- peanut butter, cheese and nuts
- low-fat ice cream

Snacks to Rebuy and NEVER eat:

- 3 x Thorntons chocolates
- Bakin' Boys Caramel Shortcake
- 2 x KitKats (or big pack?)
- Nestle Crunch Bar White & Milk

Snacks to Eat and Buy:

- Low-fat M&S icecream
- Altu Bars
- Seed/Fruit/Nut bars packs
- Woodies

Phase II

2004-01-18T10:28:40Z

So I'm doing an interesting Phase II. Basically Phase I foods except for snackage. A week of this to hopefully get it out of my system! After that 1-2 weeks of Phase I v.v.strict with only the ricotta desserts and meringue cookies. After that ease into a proper Phase II?

Splenda vs Honey?

2004-01-16T08:40:16Z

Even though honey isn't allowed on the SBD I'm seriously thinking about substituting Splenda for it. Artificial sweeteners just can't be good! I think I'm going to allow 1 tbsp of honey and jam a day, while cutting out all cheese maybe? Definitely cut out the mozarella and low-fat chedder...keep the bit of feta/ricotta? hmmm we'll see!

Once below 118 I can start to look at Oatmeal replacing the ricotta, with the below snackage and woodies? Something to think about!

DAY 2

2004-01-16T08:11:15Z

- SBD Phase I (chicken, lettuce, cucumber, yoghurt, mozarella, guacomole, nuts, mushroom, fried veggies)
- Bag of Peanut M&Ms again!!! Really got to watch that.
- 1 Woodie Bar
- Exercise: 0

new icons!

2004-01-15T20:37:43Z

Credit for new Orli icons goes to whitevanilla

DAY 1

2004-01-15T20:22:27Z

- SBD Phase 1 (eggs, sole, cheese, nuts, celery, chicken, cucumber, yoghurt, ricotta)
- Peanut M&Ms I found it an effort to finish the 45g pack, I could have easily just eaten a handful yet I finished the whole thing
- Exercise: 0

nutritional information of snacks

2004-01-15T08:05:21Z

Just some boring snackage information

Snacks:

Nestle Crunch Standard - 170kcal, 19.7g carb, 9.1g fat
Nestle Crunch White Standard - 161kcal, 18.8g carb, 8.6g fat
KitKat 2 Finger Milk - 106kcal, 13g carb, 5.5g fat
Walnut Whip - 161kcal, 21.2 g carb, 8.2g fat

Info comes from Nestle Nutrition Site

Eat Natural Bar Yoghurt, Almond, Apricot - 236kcal, 26g carb, 12.8g fat

Info comes from Eat Natural Store

Peanut M&Ms - 227kcal, 26g carb, 11g fat: *Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil*

Info comes from M&M Site

Woodies - 97kcal, 1.4 carb, 7.2g fat

to help me with healthy eating.

quiz result!!!

2004-01-14T10:47:19Z

You are going to Marry orlando Bloom. He will
always treat you right and is very romantic. He
will do anything for you. He is very polite and
has deep brown eyes and is very good looking
(which is another plus!). He can make anythind
cheesy look really good (like sliding down
stairs on a shield shooting arrows or wearing
pointy ears for example). Congrats!!

Which male celebrity are you going to marry? (10 results that have pics!)
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