Tag: involvement
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HBO says ‘Harry Potter’ series will ‘benefit’ from J.K. Rowling’s involvement
When J.K. Rowling first went public in June 2020 about her belief that transgender women are men and transgender men are women, many of the stars of the “Harry Potter” and “Fantastic Beasts” movies — including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Eddie Redmayne — immediately spoke out in support of trans and nonbinary rights and identity. Two of the biggest Harry Potter fan communities, MuggleNet…
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Rescued diary in Hong Kong sheds light on Chinese involvement in D-Day
HONG KONG — A key piece of a little-told chapter of World War II history almost ended up in a landfill. In 2015, a photographer in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong was exploring an apartment building scheduled for demolition when he discovered a number of items from China’s pre-Communist republican era, including a diary…