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Johnny Depp, King of Sexual Ambiguity

The Mad Hatter is the latest in a long line of gender-bending roles

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 8, 2010 11:45 AM CST

(Newser) – Johnny Depp is routinely lauded for playing “unconventional” characters, “but here unconventional is code for ‘sexually ambiguous.’” And yet Depp—who approaches “role after role as installments in a serial drag show”—has remained “more popular than... More »

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billieb
Mar 9, 2010 2:46 PM CST
Mr. Depp is fantastic. In Ed Wood he doesn't even resemble himself he is Ed Wood, love it. Gender bender or whatever he is great.
FromVenus
Mar 8, 2010 10:50 PM CST
Well I'd turn lesbian for Johnny Depp then.
Count-Spatula
Mar 8, 2010 9:35 PM CST
Carrol's Mad Hatter is “already one of the fruitiest characters in the history of Western literature?”
Um, no. He's mad because hatter's used mercury to cure pelts. He has mercury poisoning. Nothing makes it through the demented demeanor, but some brainless intern with no knowledge of the book has imposed this stupid, unsupportable reading on him.

Do your research Slate.

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