can
I link to your site/can you link to my site?
What
is the Zone and who runs this site?
The Zone is run by two Deppheads for fellow fans.
Our names are Rosemary (aka Sleepy) and Irene
(aka irene). We're simply a couple of fans who
admire Johnny Depp's work and his approach to life, and
enjoy running this fan site about him. Rosemary is responsible
for the massive picture collection that makes up the Zone's
photo galleries, and Irene's responsible for the site
design & maintenance. We're a trans-Atlantic alliance,
with Rosemary based in Oklahoma USA and Irene based in
London England. We've never met in person but it's a great
partnership.
Rosemary became a fan after seeing Donnie Brasco
back in 1997. She began contributing photos from her collection
to a website dedicated to Johnny, and when that site closed
down Rosemary launched the Johnny Depp Zone with
Sherry (who did the website work) in August 1999. Irene
became a fan in late 1998 after seeing Dead Man
as part of a season of Depp films on tv. She became a
regular contributor to the Zone and, when Sherry
moved on, Irene took over the website work in July 2001.
Johnny Depp Zone.com is a non-profit website
not officially authorized by or affiliated to Johnny Depp,
his management, agent, publicist or any of his film projects.
Our aim is to bring you the biggest & best quality
photos of Johnny available on the web plus the most up-to-date
news on his work, in an informative, high quality and
respectful website - with a dash of humour thrown in.
We're proud of our site and we hope that you enjoy it.
The
Zone is a gay-friendly site (one of our slogans
is DTSIG, meaning 'Damn, this site is gay!').
We welcome everyone who admires Johnny and who respects
the other fans at this site, no matter what their race,
creed, colour or sexual orientation. To quote Johnny:
"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately
that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good
to be different, that we should question ourselves before
we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves
different, talks different, is a different color."
While
Johnny Depp continues to make movies and "lie for
a living", the Zone will be here as a meeting
place for Deppheads to have fun and enjoy the work of
this unique 'actors' actor'. [top]
Do you know Johnny, his personal
contact details, etc?
No and No. This site isn't connected to Johnny, his publicist,
his agent, his family, or anyone else connected to him.
We don't have any personal information about Johnny Depp
and we are not in contact with him. We're just a fan site!
Please don't email us asking for his personal contact
details (we don't know them), or send us personal emails
written to Johnny thinking they'll get through to him
(because they won't). We just delete them. Sorry. [top]
Who is 'Anon in LA'?
'Anon in LA' has been a regular at the Zone since
autumn 2002. This person works in the U.S entertainment
industry and they provide us with wonderful 'insider'
information and titbits about Johnny's current work and
whereabouts. They're able to give us glimpses into the
professional side of the film industry, as well as giving
us the heads-up on upcoming press junkets and appearances
by Johnny. We're extremely grateful to them for all the
generous information they provide for Johnny's fans.
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Does Johnny ever visit this
site?
No. Johnny's said that he doesn't take an interest in
anything that's printed about him, and that he never reads
magazine articles about himself. So it stands to reason
that he wouldn't visit this fan site about himself either.
He's busy living his life, making movies, and spending
time with his family. As far as we know, no one from Johnny's
publicity/management team visits this site either -- at
least, they've never contacted us.
If someone posts on our message boards claiming to be
'Johnny Depp', you can be certain that they're lying.
They are either playing a game with you, or they're trying
to impress you, or they've got darker motives. Don't be
fooled. It's not Johnny.
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Have you met Johnny?
Irene was lucky enough to meet Johnny very briefly while
he was filming JM Barrie's Neverland on location
in England in August 2002. You can read her story of watching
the night's filming here.
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How do you get the latest
information for Breaking News?
We get our information from you! It's the support of so
many of you who visit and contribute news, gossip, weblinks,
and other goodies that makes the Zone what it
is. Plus, of course, we trawl the likely news & entertainment
sites ourselves and rummage through the newsstands. Also,
since Pirates of the Caribbean began filming
back in 2002, the webmasters of the principal Orlando
Bloom fan sites have been extremely generous with passing
on information that they find about Johnny.
The Zone is informative and up-to-date because
of the contributions of Deppheads the world over. You
can contribute most directly by posting on the
JDZ News board, so that other fans can read the latest
news fast. If you don't want to give your name, you can
post as 'Anonymous'. [top]
Do you have a mailing list?
No, the Zone doesn’t have a mailing list. Instead,
all of the previous Breaking News pages are available
on this site, so that even if you haven’t visited
for a while you can catch up on what’s been happening.
You can find the links to the old news items at the bottom
of the current Breaking
News page. [top]
Where
do you get all your photos of Johnny?
About 99% of the photos in the Zone's galleries
are from Rosemary's personal collection of magazines,
books and cuttings, and she spends way too much of her
spare cash buying both new and and rare magazines to enhance
our collection. Other photos are contributed by fans who
visit the Zone and by Irene.
As a rule we only use our own original scans in the permanent
photo galleries. We'll often use images from other websites
on our Breaking News page, but the pictures in
our main galleries are our original scans from magazines,
not 'pinched' from other sites. (On the rare occasions
where we've used another site's photo in our galleries,
we always credit the site that we've taken the photo from.)
That's why our Film galleries don't have every photo that's
ever been released for a particular film -- we only add
photos that we've found in magazines and have scanned
ourselves.
If you come across a photo of Johnny in a magazine that
we don't already have up in our galleries - especially
if it's a rare or an old one - we'd love to receive it
if you're able to make a decent-quality scan of it. Please
email
it to us, but remember that the finished scan must be
of good quality and must be your own original scan. (We
don't like refusing contributions, but on the other hand
we won't post up fuzzy, poor-quality images at the Zone
-- unless the picture is very rare, of course!) We'll
credit your photo with your chosen name when we add it
to our galleries, and thank you wildly for it.
All photos found on this site are being used for entertainment
purposes and are taken from sources made available to
the public. All photos and articles are copyrighted material
whose use has not been specifically authorized by the
copyright owners. [top]
Where
are the pictures of Johnny's children?
There are photos of Johnny and his partner Vanessa Paradis
on our site, but no pictures of their children,
Lily-Rose and Jack. Johnny is fiercely protective of his
children and he's stated many times that he doesn't want
them to be photographed. This is what he said about the
paparazzi photographers in June 2003:
"I figure it this way: if you're going to get
me, just bring a really long lens, just make sure that
you're really far away because if I'm able to get my hands
on them, it could get ugly. And I only say that because
I don't care if they take my photograph -- I don't know
why anyone needs another photograph of me, there are plenty
out there, and so, I don't care if they take my photograph.
I don't care if they take Vanessa's photograph, we're
adults and all of that stuff -- but when they start taking
photographs of my kids and putting them in their magazines,
that I can't support, and that's why they should have
the long lens, because if I catch them I'll swallow their
nose. I'll bite their nose off and swallow it."
[from The
Blunt Review]
All
of the photos of Lily-Rose and Jack that are published
in magazines have been taken by paparazzi with long lenses,
and we won't post them up on this site. If in the future
Johnny and Vanessa do decide to let their children be
photographed then we'll happily add those authorised pictures
to this site. [top]
Can
I use your images on my site?
You can use up to 10 photos from the Zone on
your own site, but no more. Sorry if this sounds a bit
mean, but we spend a ton of money buying both new and
rare photos of Johnny and posting them up in large, high-definition
images for everyone to enjoy. The quality and range of
our photo galleries is a large part of what makes the
Zone the unique place that it is. As you can
imagine, we don't appreciate it if someone then comes
along, cherry-picks a stack of our images, and adds them
to their own website as if they'd bought the magazines
themselves. We deliberately don't put the Zone's
logo on our images because we want everyone to enjoy the
beautiful photos of Johnny without any intrusive logo.
Alas, that does leave us open to other people taking our
images and claiming them as their own -- but believe us,
we can recognise our own scans at 20 paces! Anyway, if
you're thinking of creating your own Depp site you’ll
find it much more rewarding & interesting to use your
own scans and make your site uniquely yours.
If you do use some of our photos, you must
save them to your own pc and then upload them to your
own website. Please don't just link to our images from
your site. That is called 'hot linking', and it's really
disrespectful and is bandwidth stealing - meaning that
we pay when anyone looks at our pictures
on your site. If we find that your site is hotlinking
to our images, we'll ask you to stop. If our pleas are
ignored then we'll take action to destroy the hot-links.
If you're not sure what hot-linking is, then by all means
ask us.
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Can
I link to your site/Can you link to my site?
Yes, of course you can link to this site -- seeing a link
to Johnny
Depp Zone on another website is a great compliment!
If you'd prefer to use a link graphic, then let
us know the measurements you want.
If you'd like us to list your Johnny-related site on our
Links page,
drop
us a line and let us know your url. We'll be happy
to look at your site and list it if it has original content,
is professionally put together and is actively maintained.
We don't link to sites that have stolen a stack of the
Zone's own scans, and we don't have affiliates, simply
because we've never understood their purpose! We regularly
revisit our linked sites to check how up-to-date they
are. If we believe that a site's been abandoned, then
we delete it from our Links page.
If we sound pretty fussy about who we link to, that's
because we are! We're proud of the Johnny Depp Zone
and its content, and we'd be letting our own standards
down if we were to have a welter of links to unoriginal,
messy, or abandoned sites. [top]
