That whole thing of wanting to do drugs and wanting to numb yourself, you know, it's just postponing the inevitable."Family life saved Johnny, he thinks it's the key to Jung's salvation, too. "I believe George has paid his debt to society and now it would be nice to get him out of prison so that he can try and pay his debt to his family. He can't do it when he's bound and gagged."Depp has even visited Jung's estranged daughter, Kristina, to discover whether the two could be reconciled and, talking about this, Depp looks geuninely troubled for the first time "George wants to see her real bad. But there are certain places you don't have any business going.
It's one of those things where it's like you do what you can to help but it's really none of my business." He shrugs hopelessly, "I met her, she's a great girl and they deserve a shot to be together."Depp really does believe that he can make a difference. "We're going to talk to some people in the FBI," he says, beaming "We're still checking it out. But it is possible to take up arms in that fight and maybe even get some kind of good news out of it, a good result."In his mind, he's fighting the good fight. You have to wonder if Che would agree.'Blow' is released 25 May.
Tomorrow night, the final whistle sounds for Match of the Day as we know it, as a Saturday night package of league football highlights. And this is a sad event indeed for those of us straying hesitantly towards, if not just over, life's halfway line. Even as I contemplate it, through my head runs a clumsily edited montage of cherished memories. I think, for example, of Jimmy Hill's chin and John Bond's tie knot and Peter Osgood's sideburns and Malcolm Allison's fedora, all of them improbably, absurdly, magnificently enormous. Tomorrow night, the final whistle sounds for Match of the Day as we know it, as a Saturday night package of league football highlights. And this is a sad event indeed for those of us straying hesitantly towards, if not just over, life's halfway line. Even as I contemplate it, through my head runs a clumsily edited montage of cherished memories.
