The British invasion has a second wave
USA TODAY’s Maria Puente digs through the latest celebrity news for highlights ... and lowlights. Think high school yearbook superlatives — if Princess Charlotte and The Beatles were classmates.
MOST UPLIFTING THING ABOUT THE BEATLES: THEY TOOK A STAND
The just- opened Ron Howarddirected documentary Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years, now on Hulu, tracks The Beatles from the beginnings of Beatlemania through their last trek in 1966. New to most fans is the revelation that the Fab Four, who were in their 20s at the time ( 1964), refused to play to segregated audiences. “It wasn’t the kind of thing we wanted to boast about. ... We just were,” Paul McCartney told USA TODAY.
MOST RECENT EVIDENCE OF OPRAH’S INFLUENCE: HER BOOK CLUB WINNERS
Seems like old times again. When Winfrey launched her original book club 20 years ago, she created countless best sellers. She’s doing it again with the 2.0 version of her club. This month, she anointed her second best seller in a little more than a month as Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton landed at No. 3 on USA TODAY’s Best- Selling Books list. In early August, she announced that The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead’s novel about an escaped slave, was her new pick, and it made its debut at No. 10 the following week.
MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED ROYAL BABY VISIT: PRINCESS CHARLOTTE IN CANADA
Charlotte fever rages in Western Canada, where Prince William and Duchess Kate, accompanied by their two adorable children, were set to arrive this weekend for an eight- day visit “to introduce their young family to the country.” It will be 17- month- old Charlotte’s first overseas official visit and the second for 3- year- old Prince George. The Canadian people, according to British and local media, can hardly wait.