Papa was a rollin' stone...

Depp praises gorgeous Richards - 09/07/2006 9:30:00 AM

Actor Johnny Depp thinks Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards makes a "gorgeous" pirate, and admits he is delighted the legendary musician accepted the offer of a cameo in the third 'Pirates of the Caribbean' film.
(BANG) - Johnny Depp thinks Keith Richards makes a "gorgeous" pirate.
The Rolling Stones guitarist has a cameo in the third 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie playing the father of Depp's character, Captain Jack Sparrow.
Depp has revealed he played dress-up with the legendary musician to help him prepare for his role, and claims Richards looked amazing as a haggard sea scoundrel.
He said: "We did get together in a hotel room and dress up as pirates. He looked beautiful in the clothes and his hair was in dreads. Gorgeous! Simply gorgeous!"

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Richards wanted The Rolling Stones to star alongside him in the third 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie.
The 62-year-old guitarist wanted all his bandmates in on the act, but there were no parts for them in the film.
A source said: "Keith wanted Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts to be in it too. He was hoping they could be this vile pirate crew but the script doesn't allow for it.

"He was disappointed but he wasn't going to pass up the chance to play pirates with Johnny." (C) BANG Media International

Well, I think that Keith will be happier still when he realizes that there will be another Rolling Stone on the set with him! Yes! And I do not mean that Jagger will get a parrot part at all... although he might, thanks to his Brazilian paramour Luciana Moraz! Ronnie and Charlie can always play the parts of aristocratic cadavers freshly killed for both bounty and booty! Their sheer inexpressiveness will do splendors for this type of all-important part... And guess what - if Keith's tagged as the ORIGINAL JACK SPARROW... well then it is fit that he's joined by the ORIGINAL ROLLING STONE (no, not Muddy Waters but really...) BRIAN JONES! Expect the 62 year-old guitarist to feel a major malaise at the sight of his former "guitar-playing soulmate" whose girlfriend Anita he stole way back then... And whose 1969 funeral he and said Anita did NOT attend, to add insult to injury... Verily, we can expect that the third Pirates movie will be as ominous as "Twilight Zone - The Movie" became - with Vic Morrow's accidental death, back then. Here though, it will be no accident. After all, the thrid installment is to be titled "At The World's End" I do believe...? In a nautical sense, I am sure, but double entendre is always preferred... (By the way, what a queer expression "double entendre" is! The French word "entendre" is the verb "to hear" which is like saying "double hear", uh, here! When what is really meant is "hearing double" as in twice the same word or expression but with two different meanings... French was so poorly adapted by English aristocrats! Just had to get that off my chest - a living man's chest! ;) Double meaning here too - ha ha! But I digress... again.) Let's carry on now with the task at hand, shall we?
Hence, as surely as his band's chart-topping days are themselves gone for good, Keith Richards will end up in Brian Jones' locker (!) sooner or later - by hook or by crook, he will!
Death by drowning would be ironic - "Death by Misadventure" would be so to the utmost!
That's Anita Pallenberg there, on the second last picture, with the late Brian Jones who, one would have to admit, would make for a much improved on prototypical realistic "water-logged ghost" than even Bill Nighy's Davy Jones in Dead Man's Chest - if only because he has both motive and a "background" here...
And that is Bill Nighy on the very last pic, pictured in yet another baddie role from his seriously type-casted, storied and illustrious career!
I looked long and hard for a picture of Davy Jones from the Disney movie (he who arbors definitive and distinct Lovecraftian features (...) - to the scale too! (No pun intended!)
Evidently, I gave up the search for such a pic - it belongs on my aqua musings blog anyway! As this very post could have been elsewhere too...