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Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson doesn’t think he can be canceled. The rapper and television producer, whose newest project, “Power Book II: Ghost” premieres on Starz Sept. 6, said during Variety‘s Entertainment Marketing Summit presented by Deloitte that he doesn’t care whether people love him or hate him — as long as they care. “I’m an entertainer, …

Let out a howl for these little-known facts about Michael J. Fox’s hairiest movie, “Teen Wolf,” on its 35th anniversary. Following an average Joe high schooler who finds out he’s actually a werewolf, the film was released on Aug. 23, 1985, grossing $33 million worldwide at the box office. It was peanuts compared to Fox’s …

Twenty years ago, a cheerocracy was born, and Torrance Shipman was being a total cheer-tator. Claire Kramer, Kirsten Dunst and Nicole Bilderback in “Bring It On”Universal In honor of the film’s anniversary, Clare Kramer and Nicole Bilderback, who played mean girls Courtney and Whitney, sat down with Page Six to chat about the iconic 2000 …

Get your spirit fingers out, “Bring It On” is celebrating its 20th a-n-n-i-v-e-r-s-a-r-y. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union and Eliza Dushku, the cheerleading flick helped catapult the sport to a fever pitch when it hit the big screen at the start of the millennium’s teen movie craze on Aug. 25, 2000. Now a cult classic, …

Goodyear Tire Chief Executive Rich Kramer said Thursday the company had clarified its policy to make clear employees can wear apparel expressing support for law enforcement after it faced a boycott call from President Trump. The Republican president, who is seeking a second term in office, told reporters Wednesday he would swap out the Goodyear …

Racism and anti-Semitism were second nature to him, and yet the cancel culture gives him a free pass every time. In a cancel culture targeting everyone from Confederate to Union generals, Columbus to Winston Churchill, Francis Scott Key to even Abraham Lincoln and all of Mt. Rushmore, and where the racial statements and attitudes of …

In recent years, it’s become all too common to see celebrities getting caught up in the mire of cancel culture—and totally uncommon to see them open a window into that experience. Yet this is exactly what Kevin Hart did with “Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up,” a Netflix reality series, which earned the entertainer his …

It gave haters a massive hangover — but to die-hard fans, “Coyote Ugly” has aged like a fine whiskey. Released 20 years ago Tuesday, the movie starred Piper Perabo as Violet, an aspiring songwriter from New Jersey who winds up bartending at the raunchy and rowdy NYC saloon owned by Lil (played by Maria Bello) …

Sports, movies, and schools go woke. And broke?   Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit. Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism to explain why once-successful states, institutions, and cultures simply died off. Their common explanation was that the arrogance of success ensures …

The NBA resumed its season Thursday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex with a few changes: “Black Lives Matter” is printed in block lettering near center court and social justice messages are embroidered on the back of many players’ jerseys in place of their last names. This season, which will be played inside …