Everything's canceled, more or less. The movie The Hunt was canceled before anybody got to see it. People talked about ernsts-adam-why-are-people-boycotting-the-film.html">canceling the movie Adam before anybody got to see it. Sarah Silverman was canceled, from a movie anyway, for something she did -- on television -- 12 years ago. The OA was canceled, oa-cancellation-reddit-fan-theories.html">but people maybe don't believe that it was canceled? And we're apparently on a path toward canceling... ala-votes-to-strip-melvil-dewey-s-name-from-its-top-honor.html">the Dewey decimal system?

And: Amazon Prime's new superhero series, The Boys, imagines a world where something like the Marvel Cinematic Universe is real... and something like the Marvel corporation exists too.

Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:

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• What Is the Greatest Movie Quote of All Time?
• Gwyneth Paltrow excited to find out Samuel L. Jackson was also in all those Marvel movies she did
• salinger-ebooks.html">J.D. Salinger, E-Book Holdout, Joins the Digital Revolution
• baldwin-backed-out-tina-fey-30-rock-spinoff.html">Lemon, a 30 Rock Spinoff Was So Close to Happening
• A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts A Space To Socialize
• avengers-endgame-x-men-wolverine-mcu-hugh-jackman-fantastic-four-disney-a9055231.html">Marvel source claims X-Men character Wolverine will join Avengers in new MCU film
• Eating At A Pizza Hut Restaurant May Be A Thing of the Past
• AP: Women accuse opera legend Domingo of sexual harassment
• Taylor & Kanye: How two superstars, four words, and 15 seconds of TV influenced a decade of pop culture

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