city North: Celebs Rumors

propelled to fame and fortune as one-fourth of Culture Club in 1982, has released chart-topping hits such as “Karma Chameleon,” “Time,” and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”However, before reaching eye-popping levels of global stardom, the British singer — who is set to embark on a 25-city North America tour with the group next month — recalled when he was told that his music would never see the light of day on US radio because of his sexuality.“I use the word ‘he’ and have done so for many years,” the 62-year-old told The Post. “In fact, when I was doing ‘Cheapness and Beauty’ I was told emphatically in America that I would never get played on radio because the songs used the word ‘he,’ ” he added, referring to his hit 1995 studio album.‘If you are gay and you keep it light, you can be camp on the surface and jump around in costumes but don’t talk about anything serious.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Sales agency Taskovski Films has acquired “!Aitsa” and “Fighters,” which both have premieres at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival. Dane Dodds’ “!Aitsa” has its world premiere in the festival’s Science Program. The film focuses on the spiritual lives of the inhabitants of South Africa’s Great Karoo desert. This is the place where some of the first humans likely lived. Here, in the Blombos cave, an unearthed piece of engraved ochre represents perhaps the earliest ever example of abstract human thinking. At the other extreme of the Karoo, bordering the Kalahari in the North, the town of Carnarvon is home to one of the biggest science projects in the world, the so-called Square Kilometer Array. Still under construction, the SKA will consist of hundreds of satellite dishes the size of three-story buildings. Its stated objectives are to explore dark matter, dark energy and the beginning of the universe, and search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

The yet-to-be-named platform plans to launch this summer and staff up to 20 people by the end of the year, a knowledgeable individual told TheWrap. The entity has raised $7 million in funding from TPG and 40 North Capital.