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If there's ever a motion picture produced about the life of Broadway musical theater star Carol Channing, eternally cool actor Johnny Depp would very much like to be considered for the lead role. How perfectly deranged would that be? In an interview with the Mirror in UK, Depp strayed off the topic of Public Enemies to reveal his burning passion for Channing, who is now 88 years old: "My dream role would be to play musical legend Carol Channing in a biopic of her life. I love her, I really do. With all the digital technology available these days I could probably pull it off." But who needs special effects? This the guy who brilliantly nailed such disparate roles as Hunter S. Thompson and Ed Wood. Red lipstick and a little tuck is all would take. Still, Depp may need a little post-production help to pull off his other weird fantasy role: "I'd have a go at playing a 12-year-old girl if they asked me to." Uh, that's where he loses us. But for fun, here's Channing's wacky cameo in Alice in Wonderland; coincidentally, Depp is playing the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's forthcoming 3-D adaptation of the Lewis Carroll novel.

Save the Deli reported yesterday that Carnegie Deli owner Milton Parker died on Friday. He was 90-years-old. His business card once read “Milton Parker, CPM (Corned beef and pastrami maven).” The restaurant is known for making the biggest pastrami sandwich imaginable; in December, the Serious Eats Lab Team conducted a study that revealed a single Carnegie Deli sandwich could be used to make 5 normal sandwiches.

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week!

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: two pedestrians struck at 71st St. and Northern Blvd. in Queens, a shooting at St. John's Pl. in Brooklyn, and a collapse at 52nd St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan.
• Someone stole the "diamond dress" that Carol Channing wore during her stage run in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," from an unattended luggage cart. The $150,000 dress was about to be donated to the Smithsonian Museum.
• Annheuser Busch is moving a distribution plant from Long Island City in Queens to Hunts Point in the Bronx. Beer is seen as a vital fluid essence and economic stimulant to the revitalization of the downtrodden neighborhood.
• The Ground Zero remains of American Airlines Flight 11 passenger Laura Lee Morabito were identified recently through the use of advanced DNA testing techniques.
• Recording artists 50 Cent, L'il Kim and their two record companies are being sued for non-payment of royalties to a songwriter.
• A Nigerian immigrant New Yorker fashioned a bust of Mayor Bloomberg from the tickets he received from the Dept. of Sanitation.
• The Gowanus Lounge reports that Red Hook car owners and other Brooklyn neighborhood residents are pleased that street cleaning will be halved in the near future. Alternate side of the street parking switches will only occur once a week rather than two.
• A salvage team is looking for almost $10 million in silver bars that were never recovered from a 1903 incident when cargo belonging to the Guggenheim family fell overboard into the Arthur Kill on its way to South Amboy, NJ.

Jeff Marx & Robert Lopez, Creators Avenue Q

And as reader Brian Van points out, since favored musical Wicked did not win, we'd like Times public editor Daniel Okrent to make good on his claim that "if [Wicked] loses the Tony I'll eat my black satin jacket from the road company of Jekyll and Hyde." You name the venue, Daniel!