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The E! Entertainment network announced that its documentary series on Caitlyn Jenner premiering next month will be titled I Am Cait, and it is showing a promo video for the series depicting her applying makeup. The transgender Olympian formerly known as Bruce is featured in an eight-episode series that debuts July 26 and depicts her transition from a man to a woman. E! ramped up promotion Wednesday by releasing a video that depicts Jenner applying lipstick while sitting at a makeup table. She says for the first time a professional had applied makeup for her. “What a difference,” she said. Jenner, while driving near her California home, declared: “I’m the new normal.”
Clint Eastwood will follow his box-office sensation American Sniper with a bio-pic of pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that Eastwood will direct and produce the notyet-titled drama as his next film. The film is to be adapted from Sullenberger’s 2009 memoir, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, which chronicled his personal history before he famously landed a US Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York in 2009. It will be Eastwood’s first film after the biggest box-office hit of his career. The Oscar-winning American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, made $543.4 million globally for Warner Bros. and became the top domestic release of 2014.
Keith Richards doesn’t keep a list of the Top 10 Rolling Stones albums. But he’s happy to place Sticky Fingers, being rereleased in a deluxe edition next week, near the very top. “I put it up there,” he said in a recent interview. “I don’t No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 them, but it’s somewhere in that jumble, top four or five albums.” With its provocative Andy Warhol designed album cover and strong sax work on classics like “Brown Sugar” and “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” the album has long been a favorite with fans who first heard it way back on its release date in 1971. The 71-year-old guitarist said he had been “iffy” about the industry trend toward rereleasing expanded editions of old classic material until the redone 2010 version of Exile on Main St. did surprisingly well. “I forgot that basically a couple of generations had gone by since the things first came out,” Richards said. “What I realized after Exile was that we picked up an enormous amount of new young fans, because they thought it was a new record.”