He may play Johnny Depp's dad in the latest installment, but it's doubtful Keith Richards will live to see the next. The Rolling Stones alum was kidding when he said he snorted a mixture of cocaine and his dad’s cremated remains, but Disney, the parent company behind Pirates of the Caribbean isn’t laughing. Richards, who was a rock star prior to becoming a dried-apple refrigerator magnet, is making a cameo as Teague Sparrow, father of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The Mouse House is in a tizzy over what to do about Richards’ remarks, and is banning the rocker from promoting the film, which opens May 25. "When [a senior Disney publicist] forwarded the [Richards] story to me ......
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