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Struggling to Get By on $2,000,000 a Month
It’s not easy being Johnny Depp. It’s not inexpensive, either. Imagine if you had all these financial obligations:
- Maintaining 14 residences, purchased for $75 million (including a string of islands in the Bahamas)
- 45 luxury automobiles
- 200-piece art collection – including Andy Warhol
- 12 storage units of celebrity memorabilia
- 70 collectible guitars
- 24/7 security and 40-person entourage at $400,000 per month
- Private air travel expense of $200,000 per month
- Wine purchases at $30,000 per month
- $7 million divorce settlement ending 15-month marriage
With two recent motion-picture box-office bombs, Mr. Depp’s expenses are outpacing his income. So of course he is doing what any sane person would do: blame somebody else. Johnny Depp is suing his long-time business managers, The Management Group, for $25 million, claiming they never told him he might have some financial problems. TMG responded that they, “… repeatedly warned and advised Depp to reduce his spending and sell unnecessary assets. But ultimately, the decision whether and how to spend his money was a decision for Depp to make. Depp listened to no one, including TMG and his other advisors, and he demanded they fund a lifestyle that was extravagant and extreme.”
And you thought you had problems.
Black History Month
February is Black History Month. What follows is a transcript of our president honoring it as only he can.
Aunt Lorraine & Uncle Roger and The Day the Music Died
A small plane took off from the Mason City Iowa airport in bad weather, shortly after midnight on February 3, 1959. It was a short flight. Killed in the subsequent crash were the pilot, Roger Peterson, entertainers J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly. They had just finished their performances at the Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear Lake. You are probably familiar with the story of the “The Winter Dance Party” tour and “the day the music died.” (Also on the tour were Dion & the Belmonts.)
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Love Is All Around (not The Troggs)
We’ve been hearing snippets the last few days of the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” theme song, “Love Is All Around,” written and sung by Sonny Curtis. “Who can turn the world on with her smile,” and “You’re gonna make it after all,” – changed from “You might just make it after all,” after the first season – are likely still floating in your brain.
Life After Rock ‘n’ Roll
Rob Leonard was an undergraduate at Columbia University in 1968 when he and his brother George transformed the school’s a-cappella group by having them dress and style their hair like 1950s punks from Brooklyn. They sang doo-wop hits from that early rock ‘n’ roll era. They added instruments and became a nationwide success as Sha Na Na. (The name is from the The Silhouettes’ hit song, “Get A Job.”) The high point for Leonard came when Jimi Hendrix asked the band to open for him at Woodstock. Rob Leonard sang the lead on “Teen Angel” prior to Hendrix electrifying the world with his “Star Spangled Banner.”