INTERVIEW: Is 50 Cent the New De Niro…or the New Jenny Craig?

INTERVIEW: Is 50 Cent the new De Niro…or the new Jenny Craig?
He was virile, ripped, menacing — and then, he wasn’t. When snapshots surfaced recently of rapper 50 Cent in an emaciated disorder, the blogosphere recoiled in gasps and rumor. Never mind that they were from the set of Things Fall Away from each other, a movie about a football player battling cancer that required Fiddy to drop 50 pounds. Public were freaking out anyway. And why not? Since the Queens kid born …