By Lee Pfeiffer
Entertainment writer Jeff Sneider accuses Johnny Depp of the worst charge that can be leveled at a leading man: "You're no longer cool!" Sneider backs up his charge by accusing Depp of bypassing the kinds of interesting roles he used to play in order to portray similar eccentrics in big-budget schlock like the Disney Pirates movies. Depp has agreed to play Tonto in a Lone Ranger pic and Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. Other critics have accused Depp of being on automatic pilot in recent years and allowing commercial appeal to trump artistic integrity. Nicholas Cage has faced similar criticism for appearing in critically-lambasted family films at the expense of the praise he once enjoyed for starring in more original, off-beat fare. For more click here