Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles ; he played the title character of Edward Scissorhands ( 1990 ) and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ), Rango ( 2011 ) and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series ( 2003 – present ).

Other performances have been: in What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993 ), as a woman who is having an affair with the title character ( played by Johnny Depp ); the role of Hannah Nixon in the Oliver Stone biopic, Nixon ( 1995 ); and in the Will Ferrell 2003 comedy Elf, as a woman who discovers that her husband is the father of one of Santa's elves.

* Johnny Depp on the Freedom Fries incident, " U. S. is like a stupid puppy ", CNN. com, Sept 3, 2003

In 2003, Disney released Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, a feature film inspired by the attraction starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, an Oscar-nominated performance.

In the 2003 film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, starring Johnny Depp, Antonio Banderas, and Willem Dafoe, he played the role of a retired FBI agent.

* Johnny Depp ( October 1993, August 2003, February 2010 )

In a 2003 issue of Rolling Stone, Depp was named as one of its " People of the Year ", and gave an interview in which he briefly discussed his role as Sands: " The idea behind him is there was this guy I used to know in Hollywood, in the business, who on the outside was very charming – soft-spoken and almost hypnotic in the rhythm he used to speak.

After Tim Burton was hired as director in May 2003, Burton immediately thought of Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka, who joined the following August for his fourth collaboration with the director.

Since these award-winning productions, Newell has directed a number of films in Hollywood, such as Donnie Brasco ( 1997 ) ( starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp ), Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) ( starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, and Angelina Jolie ), and Mona Lisa Smile ( 2003 ) ( starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles ).

* Sheldon Sands, a fictional character from the 2003 movie Once Upon a Time in Mexico, portrayed by Johnny Depp

He told Colors magazine in 2003 that he periodically breaks his fasting with a cheeseburger and a cola, explaining that when he's surrounded by junk culture and junk food, consuming them adds balance.

The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq — acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary — agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.

In 2003, Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN's Indigenous People's Forum that during the Congo Civil War, his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals.

In 2003, Gelli told La Repubblica that it seemed that the P2 " democratic rebirth plan " was being implemented by Silvio Berlusconi:

The story, and this strategy, were told in a two-hour documentary on GSN titled Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal in March 2003.

In 2003 he told an interviewer for the Montreal Mirror that he loves to have men urinate on him.

Of the film, Bernie Mac told USA Today in 2003, " Interracial dating is not that significant anymore.

Cauty told an Australian Big Issue writer in 2003 that all the money they made as The KLF was spent, and that the royalties they accrued post-retirement amounted to approximately one million pounds:

Shaath made news on 2005-10-07 by commenting for a BBC documentary that in a 2003 meeting with United States President George W. Bush, Bush told him and other Palestinian officials that Bush was " driven with a mission from God.

In 2003, Republican leader Jim Brulte told The Los Angeles Times that Davis lacked the basics of political collegiality to pull him through hard times.

In 2003, Queen Silvia told a Swedish reporter that she and the royal family would like to be more open to contact with magazines and newspapers but that false articles about the family's lives – including photograph montages purported to show the Crown Princess and Princess Madeleine with their " secret " babies, published in the German magazine " Frau mit Herz " – had made them wary.

A 2012 TV episode, ' Sins and Secrets: Newry ', told the story of a series of murders that happened at a local B & B in 2003.

Meeting minutes state that SEPTA “ discourage ( s ) disturbing the soil, digging up or removing the existing blacktop or adding blacktop to the site .... SEPTA would permit the borough to cover the existing blacktop with brick .” In addition, meeting minutes from 2003 state that the borough council was “ given certain constraints by SEPTA who preferred that the borough not disturb the soil .” Jane Spector, who designed a conceptual plan for the property, told park and recreation officials that “ a condition of the lease is that there would be no remediation of soils by SEPTA, nothing that, considering the property ’ s history, soils should not be moved or disturbed ; no soils test have been done ,” according minutes from a 2003 meeting.

Scrooge appears in Louis Bayard's 2003 novel Mr. Timothy, which is told from Tim Cratchit's perspective.

" That was the worst time of my life ," he told the Daily Mirror in 2003.

In 2003, Charles Geisst, a Glass-Steagall supporter, told Frontline the Federal Reserve Board ’ s Section 20 orders meant the Federal Reserve “ got rid of the Glass-Steagall Act .” Former Federal Reserve Board Vice-Chairman Alan Blinder agreed the 1996 action increasing “ bank-ineligible ” revenue limits was “ tacit repeal ” of Glass-Steagall, but argued “ that the market had practically repealed Glass-Steagall, anyway .”

On January 2, 2003, Boisselier told a French television audience that the American parents of the supposed clone are balking at providing DNA evidence to prove that their baby is really a clone.

In 2003, he told the Chicago Tribune:

On 27 November 2003 a group of his senior colleagues told Crean that he had lost the party's support and should resign.

According to a filmed interview with her which was released in 2003, she had moved from New York City only when she was told her rented loft / workspace / studio would be no longer available because of the building's imminent demolition.

On March 27, 2003, Wolfowitz told the House Appropriations Committee that oil revenue earned by Iraq alone would pay for Iraq's reconstruction after the Iraq war ; he testified his " rough recollection " was: " The oil revenues of that country could bring between $ 50 and $ 100 billion over the course of the next two or three years.

Fleischer testified in open court on January 29, 2007, that Libby told him on July 7, 2003, at lunch, about Ms. Plame, who is Mr. Wilson's wife.

Bruton vehemently denied this and Fine Gael counsel told the Planning Tribunal in 2003: " I refute entirely Mr Dunlop's contention that he advised me then of the alleged demand made to him by the late Tom Hand ".

2002 and 2003 also saw lower figures, and in 2004 and 2005 the parade was cancelled because of funding difficulties and coordinated opposition from most of Germany's green parties.

* The University of Germany's Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg was renamed Helmut Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in 2003 in honour of the politician whoas minister of defencehad introduced obligatory academic education for German career officers.

Following Germany's 2002 decision to phase out nuclear power generation, Stade was the first German plant to be affected ; it was closed down permanently on 14 November 2003.

The Ladenschlussgesetz in its current form was first enacted on 28 November 1956 following pressure from Germany's trade unions ; in its last revision ( of 2 June 2003 ), points of sale ( Verkaufsstellen ) must be closed at any of the following times:

Anders was the lead singer of Germany's popular pop-duo Modern Talking in 1984 – 1987 and in 1998 – 2003.

On the 58th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2003, Spiegel and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder signed an agreement that granted Germany's Jewish community the same legal status as the country's Christian religions, thereby tripling annual government funding of the Zentralrat der Juden to $ 3. 8 million.

In 2003, Germany's first modern toll road, the Warnow Tunnel was opened, connecting the port of Rostock on the east bank with the west bank of the river.

In 2003 he was awarded Germany's Officer Cross of the Order of Merit, the highest award for citizens of other countries.

At the start of 2003 – 04, it was evident Morientes was not part of Madrid's plans ; after extensive but ultimately unsuccessful negotiations regarding a loan deal with Germany's FC Schalke 04, he was loaned to French league side AS Monaco FC, where he performed very well, scoring 10 goals in 28 appearances in the league.

By expressing support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq — by that point seemingly inevitable — the Vilnius letter was a public rebuke by ten EU candidates of France and Germany's vocal opposition to American and British policy.

In 2003, the Germany's TV AllStars released a version of the song.

In 2003 the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) sent a German investigative journalist, Friedrich Mülln, into the Covance facility in Münster, Germany's largest primate-testing center, where he filmed undercover for five months.

* Carr, Firpo Wycoff Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945 ( 2003 )

However, in 2003, Germany's High Court ruled that Walmart's low cost pricing strategy " undermined competition " and ordered Walmart and two other supermarkets to raise their prices.

It is Germany's first toll road in modern times and was opened on 12 September 2003 by Federal Transport Minister Dr. Manfred Stolpe.

Fußball-Bundesliga 2003 – 04 was the 41st season of Germany's premier football league.

In 1995, he transferred to Germany's VfB Stuttgart where he won two UEFA Intertoto Cups ( 2000 and 2002 ) and a DFB-Pokal ( 1997 ), before retiring in 2003.

* Bartov, Omer Germany's War and the Holocaust Disputed Histories, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8014-8681-5.

However the higher-education rate in the country still remains the lowest in the European Union, this rate was around 7 % in 2003 ( Source: OECD ( 2003 ) Education at a Glance and OECD Statistical Compendium ), and improved to 11 % in 2007-as compared to Slovakia's and Slovenia's around 16 %; Germany's, Estonia, Spain's and Ireland's 28 %; or Belgium's, Netherland's, Denmark's, Finland's, Cyprus's and UK's, over 30 % ( Source: EuroStat, March 2007 ).

Germany's women have achieved even greater success, winning both the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup in the USA and the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.

Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim ( 27 April 1906 – c. 2003 ) was a German man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality under Germany's now-repealed Paragraph 175.

The Bundesnachrichtendienst ( BND ), Germany's foreign intelligence agency, has amassed evidence of a sophisticated Iranian nuclear weapons program that continued beyond 2003.

In a two step process analogue terrestrial TV broadcasting in the states of Berlin and Brandenburg was switched off in 2003 and replaced by DVB-T, in 2005, about two-third of Germany's states began to replace analogue transmission.