Johnny Depp on Winona Ryder, and More Gems From 1993 Revealed in Movieline's Vault

It's that time again, everyone: Grab a snack, put on your dust gloves and retreat to the pop-culture sanctuary of Movieline's Vault. its curators have just unearthed the magical issues of 1993, featuring everyone from Young Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt to Sex issue cover girl Demi Moore to a decidedly pre-stroppy Mike Myers. You could stay here all day (and judging by the flimsiness of the other news out there, maybe you should)!

· Christina Ricci was mostly a well-adjusted young lady at age 13, lapsing only to build furtive Gummi Bear murals in a darkened theater and bemoan that critic who cited her "gravedigger's forehead." Mean!

· David Thomson weighed in on the influence and legacy of 1970s cinema.

· Women's Issue cover star Sharon Stone deigned to talk to us at the height of her powers, and boy, was that weird:

"I'm soooooo recognizable," she laughs, "that I reported to work on my new movie one morning at 5:30--wet hair, sunglasses, in a coma--buzzed down my black-coated window and announced to the guards at the gate, 'Shaaaaron Stone,' and they said, 'No, you're not.' I went, 'Yeah, I am.' I looked in the rearview mirror and checked: 'Un-hunh, that's me.' And they're still going, 'No, you're not,' so I say, 'What the hell would I be doing here at 5:30? Do I look like the kind of girl who gets up early for fun?' and they say, 'Sharon Stone was here the other day, you look nothing like her. So, back it up!'" She throws back her head and adds, mock-evilly, "Now I've got an electric gate key all my own so I never have to talk with any of them anymore!"

You can bet this never happened last season when she reported to work for Law & Order: SVU.

· Christian Slater, Matt Dillon, Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas are are among those featured prominently (suspiciously?) in the feature "Top 10 Performances in the Last Five Years."

· "Well," Brad Pitt said in his cover profile for Young Hollywood Issue, "don't you wonder where the young Pacinos, the young De Niros, the young Walkens, the young Duvalls, the young Newmans, the young Redfords are? Who do we have now that's young and inspiring? Sean took a break. Don't get me wrong, there are a few. But not enough. We got Oldman, and he's not that young, really. River's good. Juliette is one. Dermot Mulroney. There's Elias Koteas. He's great." Sorry, Jason Bateman, your time would come.

· And yet Johnny Depp somehow had it worse:

"So, you're in a bar and you go to the bathroom to take a pee, right?" says Johnny Depp, spewing smoke from a cigarette at our table in a Melrose Avenue breakfast joint, "and you're standing at the urinal with your dick in your hand and some guy comes up to you and goes, 'Hey, so how are you and Winona doing?' I mean, Jesus Christ."

· Why did so many films of the era contain elements of castration or other general genital maltreatment? Joe Queenan investigates!

· Just for the record, Madonna never called Mike Myers's house, but she did tell him on the set of SNL not to "slip me the tongue, or I'll kill you." He explains it a lot better than I can.