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Chinese-American actress Liu Yifei has attracted support and brickbats online after voicing support for the Hong Kong police on social media this week amid the city’s anti-government protests. There were calls to boycott Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan , in which she has the title role. The hashtag #BoycottMulan was trending on Twitter on Friday, featuring in more than 21,000 posts. Liu’ s name featured in more than 16,000 posts. On Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, where she has 65.6 million followers, Liu shared a post by People’s Daily, the official newspaper of China’s Communist Party, with the quote “I...

If an innate tenet of parenthood is to protect one's offspring, why does Joe Simpson insist on repeatedly tossing his youngest child to the wolves? ADVERTISEMENT That's Joe Simpson, father of the alarmingly untalented Ashlee Simpson. Ever since her lip-synching debacle last year on ''Saturday Night Live," the pop star wannabe has been a perpetual punch line, and the disparaging words grew even more ferocious after her screechy, off-key performance at the recent Orange Bowl halftime show. By the end of her song, ''La La," a spectacular chorus of boos rained from what sounded like a good portion of the...

Patriot act: Chuck E.'s in love. Rickie Lee's in revolt By Larry Katz Friday, October 31, 2003 Rickie Lee Jones first charmed listeners 24 years ago with her biggest hit, ``Chuck E.'s In Love.'' Now she's singing about a guy named George W. and she's got no love for him at all. With her new album, ``The Evening of My Best Day,'' Jones ventures into topical songs for the first time in her career. She says she didn't start out intending to mix politics with her music. President Bush drove her to it. ``I started working on the record a...