Amber seems to be a very wicked “Shelia.”

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/06/02/the-depp-trial-and-the-demise-of-the-aclu-how-a-celebrity-trial-exposed-the-collapse-of-a-celebrated-civil-liberties-group/#more-189466

I didn’t watch it, you didn’t watch it, but enormous numbers of people watched it.

Someone I know who doesn’t usually watch that sort of thing found it fascinating. I have heard commentary from lawyers saying the same thing. Plus of course you have the celebrity angle.

No. It captured the press, not the nation. Most of us, though we have heard of the trial, (how could we not), don’t give a diddly damn about it, or its outcome.

I have known several San Francisco women who swooned for Johnny Depp as the ultimate male catnip. I wonder how this plays out.

Well, Depp is a weirdo, beyond a doubt, but he’s also a solid actor.

I watched “Don Juan DeMarco” a few weekends ago and thought Depp was the only actor of his time who could have pulled off that role — a hyper-romantic young man who imagines he is Don Juan — while playing opposite Marlon Brando.

Another indication that the political winds have changed.

It helped that Heard doubled down on specific allegations of physical abuse rather than generally allege abuse along the lines of mental anguish. Her allegations would normally result in obvious injury and she claimed such injury that no third party seemed to confirm. This made it easier for Depp to win.