jan 2, 2008 - THE ENVELOPE (LA TIMES) Johnny Depp Tim Burton

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2 JANUARY 2008 Issue

Photoshoot 27 November 2007

Burton & Depp: Partners in Crime

By Mark Salisbury
The Los Angeles Times
January 2, 2008

Deadly duo Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are really out there (singing!) for Sweeney Todd.

Perched together on a couch in a London hotel room, both suffering from the flu, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp make for a brilliant comic double act, sharing jokes, finishing one another’s thoughts, laughing like naughty schoolboys, goading each other into mischief. Theirs is a special relationship that extends far beyond professional respect and into the deeply personal. “He’s blood,” says Depp, who is godfather to Burton’s 4-year-old son, Billy. “He’s family.”