Table of contents for January 6, 2025 in Globe

VEGGING OUT Musical cutup WEIRD AL YANKOVIC does his part to squash out hunger by slicing up zucchini for a nonprofit in L.A. LONG IN THE TOOTH Time has caught up with Cheers barmaid SHELLEY LONG, who serves up a dowdy look while strolling around Pacific Palisades ACTING FISHY Slack-jawed PAUL McCARTNEY’s guppy gape leaves the former Beatle looking like he needs Help! HOW UN-BRA-LIEVABLE! Aging scream queen ADRIENNE BARBEAU drops down a notch as her once bodacious bust isn’t keeping up appearances! BALLER MOVE Masked Singer panelist KEN JEONG puts his muscle behind Duke’s Blue Devils — but his alma mater’s basketball boys would lose their nailbiter to the University of Kansas THE SQUEAL DEAL Don’t want to give a bad rap to excitable CHARLIZE THERON — but the…

BATTY Britney Spears is desperate to get her music career off the ground in 2025 — but sources spit she’ll have a tough time finding sponsors because of her wacky antics, and concern is mushrooming over how the aging pop tart is hurtling toward the poorhouse! had over Britney had a mini breakthrough in 2022 when she teamed with Elton John for their chart-topping dance remix of his classic Tiny Dancer. And although she declared early last year she was done with music, sources snitch she’s looking to replace her spent-down megabucks by getting back into the studio! “She’s spending money like wild, so the obvious choice is to put out new music,” spills a spy. “But things have changed since she was at the height of her career. She’s…

Don’t ask TED DANSON if he believes a sitcom idea is a winner. The former Cheers star thought LARRY DAVID’s Curb Your Enthusiasm “sucked” when he saw the pilot. “I felt sorry for Larry,” says Ted, who later starred in it for 12 seasons. Yellowstone creator and actor TAYLOR SHERIDAN, 54, was ridiculed by showbiz rag Vulture for casting stunning model BELLA HADID, 28, as the galpal of his char acter, Travis. The mag wonders whether Taylor is show ing “repressed feelings of frustration and lack of self worth.” Summer House beauty LINDSAY HUBBARD, 38, and medical researcher boyfriend DR. TURNER KUFE welcomed baby girl GEMMA. The reality star previously confessed her pregnancy was a “not planned … surprise.” Songbird MIRANDA LAMBERT reveals one horse at her ranch, SOPHIE, is…

BAYWATCH babe Pamela has reinvented herself as a dramatic actress generating Oscar buzz at age 57 for her starring role in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl. The former pinup turned Golden Globe nominee says her comeback character — a fading Las Vegas beauty — is “representative of so many of us working against the odds to do what we love.” Here are 10 things you don’t know about Pamela. 1 Upon her birth in British Columbia, she was dubbed a Centennial Baby in the press for arriving July 1, 1967 — the 100th anniversary of Canada’s official founding through 1867’s Constitution Act. 2 At Highland Secondary School, she was a member of the volleyball team. 3 She scored her first modeling gig after attending a Canadian Football League game and being…

OSCAR winner Donald Sutherland went to his grave still lusting after movie sexpot Jane Fonda! They plunged into a two-year affair after playing lovers in 1971’s Klute. Over 50 years later, he confessed he was devastated when Jane, now 87, kicked him to the curb. “It broke my heart,” said Sutherland, who died at 88 on June 20 following a long illness at a Miami hospice. “When the moonlight caught her perfect breasts, I stopped breathing. Now when I see it in my memory, I stop breathing again.” The affair wrecked Jane’s marriage to Roger Vadim and Donald’s to Shirley Douglas, forming a wedge between him and son Kiefer, then 4. Father and son had become close by his death, but the star of The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H and The Hunger…

BASEBALL iron-man Pete Rose went to his grave haunted by the shame of his “gambling” scandal and being banned from the Hall of Fame — where he deserved to be based on his playing. He was so talented, he played five positions during his 24-season career from 1963 to 1986, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds. Pete was an All-Star 17 times, won three World Series and holds numerous hitting and other records. But he struck out when he was accused of betting on games, even his team’s — a major league no-no. He denied the charge but was voted “permanently” banned from the Hall of Fame in 1991. Rose finally fessed up in 2004. He died of cardiovascular disease Sept. 30 at age 83 at his Las Vegas home.…

THERE were no Good Times at the end for John Amos. As he battled the effects of a stroke and dementia, a feud erupted between his son, K.C., and daughter, Shannon, amid charges of elder abuse! The death of the Roots star, 84, from congestive heart failure at an Inglewood, Calif., hospital Aug. 21 was kept secret for six weeks. Unknown to Shannon, he was cremated, which she claims was “likely done to avoid any potential investigation into the conditions surrounding his final days.” She says K.C. and others isolated Amos from loved ones, and moved him from state to state to avoid probes by cops. However the actor defended K.C. to the end and vowed a documentary would show the truth.…

FORMER One Direction star Liam Payne struggled with suicidal thoughts during his career, but when he fell to his death from the third floor of a Buenos Aires hotel Oct. 16, there was no evidence of self-harm, authorities insist. Instead, his autopsy found “pink cocaine” — a cocktail of methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA and more — along with cocaine, crack and benzodiazepine in his system, and he was likely semiunconscious when he fell. Within weeks, three men faced charges in his death, including providing drugs and “abandonment of a person followed by death.” Liam, 31, had confessed he turned to booze to cope with fame and struggles with loneliness that led to thoughts of suicide. In 2023, he spent 100 days in rehab, determined to be a better dad to Bear, 7, his…

LEGENDARY Dame Maggie Smith hid a heartbreaking secret from the world — she never got over the 1998 death of her husband of 23 years, Beverley Cross. “People say it gets better but it doesn’t,” she said. “It seems pointless … going on on one’s own without someone to share it with.” But she did troop on with hits like TV’s Downton Abby and the Harry Potter flicks. The Oscar-winning actress, who defied Hollywood pressures to have plastic surgery, appeared in over 80 movies and TV shows. A breast cancer survivor, the gutsy actress also battled glaucoma and Grave’s disease and took her final curtain call at 89 in a London hospital Sept. 27.…

TROUBLED General Hospital alum Robyn Bernard was found dead in a field behind a Jacinto, Calif., business on March 12 and had to be identified by her fingerprints. An autopsy found she died of acute alcohol intoxication. Bernard, 64, who played Terry Brock from 1984 to 1990, plummeted into a world of drugs and homelessness and virtually vanished from the public eye after losing her mobile home in a trailer park fire. “Robyn lost touch with everyone over the years,” says a source. “It’s so sad the way her life ended up.”…

SPICY McKenzie Keeling got physical with a fast-food worker at a Florida chicken joint for refusing to fork over free dipping sauce — and if convicted of the fowl play, she could be put behind bars, authorities cluck! Court records show Keeling, 31, got her feathers ruffled when her pickup order was missing eight packets of condiments — and flew back to the Clearwater eatery to squawk at a manager. Cops say worker Tatyana Herbert righted the wrong — but wouldn’t give in when Keeling demanded freebies in return for “wasting her time and gas.” According to investigators, that’s when she became “hostile both verbally and physically” and disturbed the staff and customers. But police crow that the rainbow-haired rabble-rouser didn’t stop there, saying she struck Herbert in the leg, and…

■ Use a previously agreed-upon secret word in conversations to confirm you’re talking to a real person. ■ Hang up and call the person back on their line to ensure it’s really them. ■ Be suspicious of any conversation — especially those with loved ones — that involves an urgent situation and a request for money. ■ Be on the lookout for misplaced words or awkward phrases during voice calls and inconsistencies during video calls. Suspect details include distorted hands or feet, odd-looking teeth or eyes, indistinct or irregular faces, unrealistic accessories like glasses or jewelry, inaccurate shadows, watermarks, lag time, voice matching and non-realistic movements. ■ Make social media accounts private and limit online content featuring your image and voice.…

PODCAST king Joe Rogan is weighing in on the drone sightings that have people in New Jersey and New York panicked. He shared a TikTok video by John Ferguson, the CEO of a remote aircraft system company in Kansas, who speculated the unidentified flying objects may be attempting to “smell” either a gas leak, “radioactive material” or something else on the ground. “This is the first video about these drones that has got me genuinely concerned,” Rogan posted on X. “The only reason why you would ever fly an unmanned aircraft at night is if you’re looking for something,” Ferguson explained, noting this theory was just his opinion and he didn’t want to spread misinformation. Rogan also shared a clip by comedian Joey Diaz, who seemed to favor the UFO…

WOODY ALLEN’s former chef Hermie Fajardo is so steamed over being fired by the moviemaker that he has slammed him with a lawsuit, claiming the disgraced star and his wife stiffed him over his pay and balked at his break to serve in the Army Reserves! In an action filed in Manhattan federal court, the kitchen wiz claims the 89-year-old Hannah and Her Sisters creator and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, 54, knew he had to attend reserve meetings when they hired him at a yearly salary of $85,000 in June. But he charges that they canned him a month later after he returned a day late because his Army duty took longer than expected. He claims that when he returned, “he was immediately met with instant hostility and obvious resentment”…

REALITY hunk and deejay James Kennedy has spun himself into a world of trouble with an arrest on suspicion of domestic violence! The longtime Vanderpump Rules regular, 32 — who lives with his girlfriend, astrologist Ally Lewber, in Burbank, Calif. — was collared at the couple’s home after cops received a complaint about an argument between a man and a woman there on Dec. 12. Although police reportedly did not find any visible injuries on the woman, whose name was not immediately released, they say a witness told them they saw the actor — known for his hotheaded outbursts and wicked sense of humor — grab the woman. Kennedy was later released from jail on $20,000 bail while awaiting possible charges from the Burbank City Attorney’s Office, sources say.…

JAMIE SHADES KATIE LIKE A FOXX JAMIE FOXX had better be joking about his taste in galpals or he’ll have a lot of ’splaining to do to his latest squeeze, 30-year-old Aussie blonde ALYCE HUCKSTEPP. The 57-year-old actor-comic had his audience rolling in the aisles with jokes that his mysterious medical battle, where he was hospitalized for weeks for a stroke and brain bleed in early 2023, left him a changed man who has “been cured of everything.” His biggest change — “No more white girls,” he said. “I gotta let ’em know.” Lots of folks thought he was talking about former love, actress KATIE HOLMES, his crush for six years until 2019 following her divorce from TOM CRUISE. But before and since his recovery, Jamie’s been canoodling with stunning…

SELMA BLAIR The Cruel Intentions gal leaves us flat with a binding bodice that obliterates her curves MAYIM BIALIK The winning question is: Why would the former Jeopardy! host choose this dowdy outfit? WHITNEY CUMMINGS Whatta boob! The stand-up comedian’s bra-baring cutouts make her a laughingstock! ANDIE MACDOWELL The Groundhog Day beauty should put her simple yet sophisticated coat dress on repeat! JULIANNE MOORE The May December dame delivers an eyecatching plot twist with a crimson draped dress…

ONE of Hollywood’s biggest stars, James Earl Jones regretted a huge mistake — taking $7,000 to voice Darth Vader in Star Wars! “I was broke and needed the money to pay rent and buy groceries,” confessed the icon, who spent two and a half hours doing the voiceover. “$7,000 was big money for me in those days! Nobody at the time knew Star Wars would become a cult hit.” The Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award winner, who died Sept. 9 at 93, made up for that pathetic payday earning over $45 million for roles in films like Field of Dreams and The Lion King, where he was the voice of Mufasa, the father of future leader Simba.…

ACTRESS Shelley Duvall’s role as the tormented wife of axe-wielding Jack Nicholson in 1980’s The Shining plunged her into a nightmare of mental illness and poverty. Tortured by months of mental and physical abuse by director Stanley Kubrick, Duvall fled Hollywood in the 1990s, plagued by anxiety attacks and fears about spying by space aliens. She spent her final years as a tragic recluse living in squalor before dying at 75 in her sleep from diabetes complications July 11 at her run-down Blanco, Texas, ranch. Struggling to get by on her Social Security check, Popeye’s Olive Oyl confessed: “I’ve made five TV series and a bunch of movies and I have nothing. I don’t want to die like this.”…

GUTSY country star Toby Keith knew he faced a death sentence when diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2021, but the Beer for My Horses singer vowed he would play for his devoted fans until his last gasp. And the I Love This Bar crooner kept his word! The legendary hitmaker who scored 42 Top 10 country songs, including 20 No. 1 hits, performed three sold-out shows at the MGM casino on the Las Vegas Strip last December, just weeks before his Feb. 5 death at age 62. “Toby knew the end was near but he was determined to play those shows come hell or high water,” dishes a friend. “His fans had no idea it was the last they were ever going to see him.”…

THE Jackson family curse struck again when Tito Jackson, 70, was felled by a heart attack Sept. 15 while driving from New Mexico to his home in Claremore, Okla. The death of the Jackson 5 kid came 15 years after star brother Michael, 50, was given a fatal overdose of the anesthetic propofol by Dr. Conrad Murray. “The family has suffered more distressing disasters than anyone should have to,” says a source. Michael never recovered from claims he sexually abused boys. He and several siblings also claimed their father, Joe, physically and mentally abused them. Sister Janet, 58, suffered weight issues and a custody battle over Eissa, 7, her son with ex-hubby Wissam Al Mana. Michael’s daughter Paris, 26, reportedly tried to commit suicide as a teen and joined a moon-worshiping…

TABOO-busting sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer became a pop culture icon doling out frank advice on her Sexually Speaking show on radio and TV to generations of Americans. Just 4-foot-7, she used her giant personality to build a new life for herself — as a grandmotherly bedroom expert — after her Jewish family was murdered in Nazi Germany’s death camps during World War II. “My legacy is I was one of the first people talking explicitly about sexual matters,” she said. The feisty 96-year-old passed away at her New York City home July 12.…

TV TARZAN Ron Ely went to his grave still devastated by the day the gruesome knife-slaying of his wife ripped his family apart — and he was accused of the slaughter! On Oct. 15, 2019, his son, Cameron, 30, called cops saying Ely, who was then 81 and in a wheelchair, fatally stabbed his wife, Valerie, 62, Cameron’s mother. Later, Cameron was identified as the killer and was shot dead in a showdown with Santa Barbara deputies. His shooting was later deemed “justifiable homicide.” Ely, who had stepped away from acting in the late 1990s, died at 86 of natural causes at his home in Los Alamos, Calif., Sept. 29.…

FORMER NFL player Carl Weathers got his big acting break in the 1970s following a brief career with the Oakland Raiders when Sylvester Stallone cast him as heavyweight champion Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky boxing flicks. But their partnership exploded when Sly booted him over a salary squabble and slammed him as “Apollo Greed!” Carl, 76, who died of heart disease at his home in Venice, Calif., Feb. 1, went on with movie hits including 1987’s Predator and 1996’s Happy Gilmore and recently The Mandalorian TV series. But he carried a grudge against Sly to the end, says a source. “They had a love-hate relationship,” tattles a source. “Carl loved that Sly gave him the role, but hated him for taking it away!”…

BRITISH pop prince Robbie Williams has been dogged by gay rumors, but the dad of four doesn’t mind, saying, “You’ve never met somebody that wants to be gay as much as me.” The 50-year-old Rule the World rocker, shown in the current biopic Better Man, admits taking LSD at 15 and kicking off his career in gay clubs, and confesses to doing “everything but suck a c**k.” In 2005, he won damages against a paper that claimed he was secretly gay and had sex romps with dudes. Wed to Ayda Field, 45, since 2010, he admits knocking up his former galpal, All Saints singer Nicole Appleton, and regrets being pressured into an abortion. “That you were guided, nay made, to terminate a life because of being in a pop band…

FBI agent Eduardo Valdivia is a sex fiend who’s raped two women in Maryland, cops say — and his arrest comes two years after his acquittal for attempted murder! Authorities say Valdivia, 40, operated a tattoo shop in Gaithersburg under the alias Lalo Brown and used social media to lure in prey with promises of free ink and modeling contracts. Police charge he sexually assaulted two gals at his studio, then leveraged the legal agreement to strong-arm one of the women to come to a hotel room under the guise of a photo shoot — only to violate her again! The women initially believed they were communicating with a female and positively identified Valdivia as their assailant, according to investigators, who say there may be additional victims. Valdivia is charged with…

POP prince Justin Bieber would love to be friends with ex-lover Selena Gomez, but sources tattle that the hottie songbird and her new fiancé, Benny Blanco, want nothing to do with the Sorry singer! The estranged exes dated on and off from 2010 to 2018 when the Biebs suddenly pulled the plug and tied the knot with Selena’s love rival, model Hailey Baldwin, in September 2018. Selena sang about his heart-crushing treatment in her 2019 chart topper, Lose You to Love Me. “You promised me the world and I fell for it … You got off on the hurtin’ / When it wasn’t yours, yeah.” The 32-year-old star of TV’s Only Murders in the Building started dating music producer Benny, 36, in 2022 and recently got engaged. While Benny and…

CROTCHETY Kevin Costner is feeling like a forgotten man as the Yellowstone franchise flourishes without him and people he considered friends jump on the bandwagon of his nemesis — series creator Taylor Sheridan, tipsters tell GLOBE. The former TV cowboy, 69, has a burr under his saddle as he’s feeling “ignored” by ex-castmates who used to sing his praises — namely Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly, a source squeals. “Kevin’s tried to put a brave face on it, but there’s no denying this real lack of love is bothering him,” the insider dishes. “He’s been stabbed in the heart time and time again. The people on the show he thought were going to be loyal, like Cole and Kelly, are preoccupied with their own success.” Cole, 49, and Kelly, 47,…

THERE’S a third person in CAMERON DIAZ’s marriage: a therapist! And she says it’s the key to keeping her and BENJI MADDEN’s union strong. “Therapy is a big thing in our family,” the Holiday star, 52, said on her brother-in-law JOEL MADDEN’s podcast. The sessions are to prevent her and Benji, 45, from doing the “same thing over and over again” and never getting a better outcome, Cameron shared. Instead, she says they use their sessions for self-reflection and to find new ways to interact. But she cautioned, both parties have to want to do it! “You can’t be in a marriage and have a family if … both people are not 100 percent every day.” Cameron and her musician husband, who tied the knot in 2015, share daughter RADDIX,…

CODE BREAKERS Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a number. Use the given letters to get started by filling them in throughout the puzzle. Look out for patterns like repeated letters. Codebreaker puzzles use all 26 letters of the alphabet. There are no trademarks, abbreviations, hyphenated nor foreign words on the grid. LARGE BUCKET Mystery words clue: Movie night snack REFERENCE GRID MYSTERY WORDS WORD SEARCH Circle the hidden words in the grid, crossing them out in the list as you find them. Words can go horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backward. SERBIA AUSTRIA COSTA RICA IRELAND JAPAN LIECHTENSTEIN MALTA MEXICO MONGOLIA PANAMA SINGAPORE  SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TURKMENISTAN  VATICAN CITY DOMINOES Dots represent the domino tiles (with hidden borders). Identify a complete set of dominoes. Start with the unique tiles (e.g. doubles)…

DEFIANT O.J. Simpson died showing “no remorse” for the “horrible things” he’d done, never shedding a tear for his butchered ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her friend Ron Goldman, 25!  “If people hoped he would confess to a role in the 1994 slayings, they were sorely disappointed,” dishes an insider. While The Juice was sensationally acquitted of the murders at his 1995 Trial of the Century, he self-destructed due to his giant ego, says one of his Dream Team lawyers. After serving nine years in a Nevada prison for armed robbery of memorabilia dealers, Simpson was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The 76-year-old former football great died in hospice care at his Las Vegas home April 10.  In July, a Nevada court approved the auction of his possessions to pay off…

BEING typecast as a comic actress limited Teri Garr’s chances of landing dramatic roles, but that was nothing compared to the career crunch she suffered after Hollywood learned she had multiple sclerosis. “My work opportunities fell off a cliff,” said the Tootsie and Young Frankenstein star. She was diagnosed with the disease in 1999 and went public three years later. When the phone stopped ringing with offers, she became a spokesgal for an MS drug to pay the bills. After surviving a brain aneurysm and weeks-long coma in 2006, Teri officially quit acting in 2011. The 79-year-old star passed away in her L.A. home Oct. 29.…

THE tragic life of ALF child star Benji Gregory came to a heartbreaking end when the 46-year-old fell asleep in his car and baked to death — along with his service dog, Hans — under the broiling 111-degree Arizona sun in a bank parking lot June 13. Gregory, who was battling liver disease, also had opioid withdrawal drugs in his system. But things looked bright when as an 8-year-old, he won the role of Brian Tanner, who befriended the furry creature in the hit sitcom from 1986 to 1990. He quit acting in his 20s and later battled depression, bipolar disorder and a sleep disorder that kept him awake for days. “He never made a secret of his mental health issues,” says a pal.…

SHOOTING the hit movie A Star Is Born with on and off-screen lover Barbra Streisand saved Kris Kristofferson’s life! He claimed filming the death scene of his washed-up rock star character dying in a car wreck while drunk sobered him up! “I remember feeling that could very easily be my wife and kids crying over me,” Kris confessed. “I quit drinking over that!” The Rhodes scholar and military vet hit it big in 1970 when Johnny Cash recorded his song Sunday Morning Coming Down. But he soon got hooked on pills and booze. “I thought all great artists were self-destructive,” the Grammy winner said. But a pal notes: “Kris put away his death wish and self-medicating. He’d say, ‘If I could pay a visit to my younger self, I would…

SINGER Cissy Houston went to her grave blaming herself for the death of her daughter, Whitney. Cissy and her religious family couldn’t accept that Whitney, 48, was bisexual and had a secret lesbian affair with her BFF Robyn Crawford, says a source. “They were humiliated by gossip that Whitney liked other women and were thrilled when she wed R&B bad boy Bobby Brown. But that led her spiraling into the abyss of drug addiction that ended when she drowned in a hotel bathtub in 2012. ”Cissy, 91, who died from Alzheimer’s complications in her New Jersey home Oct. 7, always believed Whitney would be alive today if she’d been able to express her sexuality openly. Her death haunted Cissy until the end.”…

FAMILY matriarch Ethel Kennedy died heartbroken, horrified by the exploits of her politician son Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say sources. Bobby’s bizarre beliefs and humiliating antics, including cheating accusations, tore Ethel apart — and the Democratic Kennedy clan turned against him as he endorsed Republican Donald Trump for president. “It killed Ethel to see the Kennedy legacy shredded to tatters by Bobby,” confides a family insider. Ethel, 96, had endured incredible tragedies — including the assassinations of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and brother-in-law President John F. Kennedy — and she was humiliated by her son’s wacky claims including that he had a worm in his brain. “Bobby’s constant betrayals whittled away at her health,” insists a family source. “It was the final nail in her coffin.” Ethel died after…

STARSKY & Hutch hunk David Soul spent his final decades in “a living hell,” say friends. Flat-broke, Soul fled to England in 1993 where he was hit by health woes including crippling back pain, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a hip replacement gone bad that landed him in an ICU for weeks. Yet, the 80-year-old was planning a comeback in a reboot of the iconic police show, focusing on the daughters of the undercover cops played by Soul and Paul Michael Glaser in their 1970s TV hit. Sadly, the health-challenged father of six died in a London hospital Jan. 4, losing his “valiant battle for life,” say sources.…

JANUARY Battlestar Galactica lost its First Warrior, actor HARRY JOHNSON, 81, who rocketed to the heavens Jan. 2 after a long illness, in Los Angeles. GLYNIS JOHNS, who played Mrs. Banks in Mary Poppins, died Jan. 4, in an assisted living facility in Los Angeles. She was 100! Baby-Sitters Club actor CHRISTIAN OLIVER, 51, and his daughters, Madita, 10, and Annik, 12, were killed Jan. 4 in a small plane crash off Bequia island in the eastern Caribbean. The death of Caddyshack actress CINDY MORGAN, 69, was revealed Jan. 6, a week after she was found dead from natural causes in her Lake Worth, Fla., home, where she lived alone. Following a private battle with appendiceal cancer, actor ADAN CANTO passed away Jan. 8. Ironically, the 42-year-old starred on Designated…

AS GLOBE revealed last week, Kris Jenner is reportedly sweating bullets that disgraced football star O.J. Simpson made secret tapes in which he confesses he had a secret affair with the Kardashian momager, who was best pals with his slaughtered ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. But in today’s America, that kind of notoriety isn’t going to hurt Kris or the Kardashian family’s billion-dollar empire one bit! Take O.J., who died of cancer at age 76 last April. There’s really no doubt he murdered Nicole, 35, and her friend Ron Goldman, 25, in the enclosed yard of her Brentwood, Calif., condo on June 12, 1994. Sure, O.J.’s Dream Team of lawyers got him off at his sensational Trial of the Century — but in the three decades since, there’s never been another…

THE 1943 gothic romance Jane Eyre made audiences swoon over the growing love between a governess, played by by-the-rules actress JOAN FONTAINE, and the brooding, secretive lord of the manor, played by domineering, hard-partying ORSON WELLES. Talk about oil and water! Fontaine wrote in her autobiography that the Citizen Kane mastermind was unpredictable, egotistical and always late to the set, often dragging along his buddies. Oddly, their mutual distaste translated onscreen into romantic sizzle!…

A 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom recently became the oldest known wild bird in the world to lay an egg. It happened at Hawaii’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. NEPTUNE may be the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system — but its winds can be three times stronger than Jupiter’s and nine times stronger than Earth’s! MOST adults blink between 14,400 and 19,200 times a day, experts say — which means they flutter their lids from million to 7 million times annually! IT’S no tall tale. Giraffes are 30 times more likely to experience fatal lightning strikes than humans because of their exceptional height and time spent in open areas. THE 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War between the British Empire and the Sultanate of Zanzibar was the shortest war in…