HuffPost Entertainment Alert: Johnny Depp Issues A Statement

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Johnny Depp Regrets Rape Comment Mistake Vanity Fair on Tuesday released a small excerpt of their upcoming Johnny Depp cover article, hoping to generate buzz for their new issue ahead of its hitting newsstands. Mission accomplished. In the short passage, the Oscar nominee and $100 million a year actor made a rare misstep, comparing participating in photo shoots to being raped. "Well, you just feel like you're being raped somehow," he said. "Raped ... It feels like a kind of weird -- just weird, man." Starting A Scandal A Young Star's Experience With George Clooney Jon Hamm Almost Didn't Play Don Draper; Who Nearly Got The Part? More Bad News For Eddie Cibrian Her Horrific Claim BLOG POSTS Mike Ragogna: Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art: Chatting With The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet "I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models. They were strong women, but their power was very much connected to their creativity and their voice." Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Moneyball Sets Record for Baseball Pic, Comes in Second to Lion King 3D Unless Moneyball completely collapses for reasons unknown, Brad Pitt is (deservedly) guaranteed to receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination, and he is quickly looking like one of the front-runners to win. Linda Hassler: Tahrir 2011 Reveals Untold Details of Egypt's Revolution If you think you already know what happened during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, think again, and go see this film. Hilary Levey Friedman: The "Grand" Finale: Ending Season 4 of Toddlers & Tiaras I've been studying child beauty pageants for over a decade and I do believe that shows like Toddlers & Tiaras have gone too far. Such young pageant contestants should not be featured on television. Rev. Amy Ziettlow: Are the Lyrics on The Sing-Off Too Violent? Bopping around the Sing-Off stage talking about shooting ourselves in the brain for someone or tying the person we love to a bed and setting the house on fire, is normalizing some pretty disturbing behavior.

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