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Purple Hatter’s Ball: 5/21-23

THIRD ANNUAL PURPLE HATTER’S BALL TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF RACHEL HOFFMAN

Big Gigantic

Bear Creek Presents and New Earth Music are proud to present the third annual Purple Hatter’s Ball honoring the
memory of Rachel Hoffman. This three-day festival will be held May 21-23 at the Spirit of the
Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. The lineup for the Purple Hatter’s Ball includes Big Gigantic, DubConscious, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, Ralph Roddenbery Band, The Burnin Smyrnans, The Malah, 3rd Stone, Catfish Alliance, Greenhouse Lounge, Gravity A, Flight Risk,
Corporal Boil, Trial By
Stone
, Pepper Drive, Dead Circus and Lucid Groove. On Saturday night,
May 22 all guests are invited to wear costumes that include the color purple, commemorating Rachel’s favorite
color.

Festival tickets are $40 and include the music, three nights of camping and all taxes and fees. The Music Park is also
offering a discount on cabins and golf carts for this event. A cabin for two nights and a golf cart for 4 people is only
$400.


Johnny Depp likes wearing skirts!

Johnny Depp has confessed that he loved wearing a kilt while playing the role of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’’s new movie ”Alice in Wonderland”.
In the film, the hunky star portrays the Mad Hatter with a Scottish accent, and says he particularly enjoyed one scene where he got to wear a kilt, the national [...]

ILLUSION, MAGIC AND IMPOSSIBLE IDEAS COME TO LIFE IN UPCOMING ALICE IN WONDERLAND VIDEO GAMES FROM DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS

Games inspired by the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures film to give players their own unique journey through Tim Burton’s Underland As Tim Burton and Lewis Carroll fans become curiouser and curiouser (Carroll, 1865) about Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming “Alice in Wonderland” film, Disney Interactive Studios today announced development of video game adaptations of the beloved [...]

Does it send you down the rabbit hole?

It’s got Johnny Depp as a frightwigged Mad Hatter, a Stephen Fry-voiced Cheshire Cat and a grown-up Alice – are you intrigued or turned off?

We’ve already been treated to a glimpse of what Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is going to look like, thanks to a series of stills that emerged earlier this year. But here is the first teaser trailer, featuring a healthy dose of Johnny Depp sporting a particularly lurid ginger frightwig as the Mad Hatter.

It’s also our first look at the Cheshire Cat, which will be voiced by Stephen Fry, the fearsome Jabberwock (Christopher Lee) and the Knave of Hearts (the horribly underused Crispin Glover). Burton’s Alice, played by Australian newcomer Mia Wasikowska, is 10 years older than Lewis Carroll’s creation, which should allow for a slightly darker, more adult take on Wonderland. But don’t expect anything too racy: this is, after all, a Disney movie.

By the looks of the trailer, the CGI work on the film is satisfyingly vivid and hyper-real. Depp seems to have adopted the camp mannerisms of a certain Captain Jack Sparrow, but shifted his accent from cockney seadog territory towards something rather more eccentrically upper class. It should be remembered, of course, that the actor is more than capable of fouling up an otherwise perfectly decent movie with an unnecessarily eccentric performance – I’m thinking of his Michael Jackson impersonation in Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory here – just as he maintains the ability to make slightly average fare transcend its genre parameters (as with the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie).

His Mad Hatter looks pretty fun and fairly sensible, though, wouldn’t you agree? Does this teaser make you want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes when Alice in Wonderland hits cinemas in March next year?

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