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It’s probably no coincidence that a version of “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” the Fulton Theatre’s big stage musical for the holidays in late 2021, celebrates transformation and diversity.
Quest to land humans on Mars heats up and 5 other top space and science stories this week
A version of this story appeared in Wonder Theory, the first-ever CNN space and science newsletter, which launched Saturday.
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Queer as Folk Reboot Is a Go, Will Take Place in the South
Groundbreaking gay television show
Queer as Folk. The new version of the classic show will explore a diverse group of friends in New Orleans whose lives are transformed in the aftermath of a tragedy.
The orginal British series was created by Russell T. Davies and starred Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, and Charlie Hunnam as three gay men living in Manchester, England in the late 1990s.
That was followed by a Showtime series, set in the American Rust Belt city of Pittsburgh, that lasted for five seasons, from 2000 to 2005. It starred Gale Harold, Randy Harrison, Peter Paige, Hal Sparks and Sharon Gless. It was one of the first American TV shows to focus on the lives of gay men; actresses Michelle Clunie and Thea Gill also portrayed a lesbian couple that s part of the men s circle.
Some months ago, the Chinese authorities approached some of the biggest foreign companies in the country and asked them to tap a representative to participate in a small closed-door gathering on China’s new economic strategy. The meeting was to be with a senior official at an undisclosed time and location, and, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss it, companies were asked to send only ethnic Chinese representatives. In both content and form, the episode captured China’s eagerness to make its economy more recognisably Chinese, developing its own technologies and energy sources while relying on domestic consumption rather than on foreign demand.