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Rebecca Rubin
Senior Film and Media Reporter
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©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Four years ago, Johnny Depp‘s fans and detractors descended on the sleepy town of Fairfax, Virginia, to cheer or jeer the actor in his ugly defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard. Now, when local cinema operator Mark O’Meara probes his patrons about “Ebenezer,” a new take on “A Christmas Carol” featuring Depp as the coldhearted miser Scrooge, he’s met with decidedly less intensity about the embattled star’s first major movie role in nearly eight years.
“Some people can’t wait. They love Johnny Depp. And others are just like, ‘Meh,’” says O’Meara, who owns Fairfax’s University Mall and Cinema Arts theatres. “I don’t think it’s a polarizing thing.”
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