Table of contents for September 12, 2016 in Globe

CHRIS ROCK and MALAAK COMPTON-ROCK finalized their divorce on Aug. 22, freeing him up for ladylove Megalyn Echikunwoke. Media heiress LYDIA HEARST married comedian and “Talking Dead” host CHRIS HARDWICK on Aug. 20 in Pasadena, Calif. “Vanderpump Rules” stars TOM SCHWARTZ and KATIE MALONEY wed on Aug. 17 in Northern California. RFK’s granddaughter MEAGHAN KENNEDY TOWNSEND is a new mom of twins with fiancé BILLY BIRDZELL. She welcomed ARABELLA and DAVID on Aug. 15. L.A. prosecutors have charged troubled comedian KATT WILLIAMS with misdemeanor battery for a July 24 incident. He faces up to six months in jail. Actor JACK RILEY, best known as neurotic Elliot Carlin on “The Bob Newhart Show,” died of pneumonia in an L.A. hospital on Aug. 19. He was 80. Boy band Svengali LOU PEARLMAN,…

SICKLY Aretha Franklin’s going from the “Queen of Soul” to Empress of Food! The 293-pound singer, 74, plans to leave the stage and head to the kitchen to work on her frozen food line! “I’d say that within the next year or so, I’m going to be re tiring,” says the legendary singer, who just canceled a string of concerts due to health problems. But the music legend insists she’s not going to slow down! “I want Aretha’s Foods to be like Sara Lee,” she proclaims, gushing about her rice and shrimp dish. “And I do what I call a monster — a monster is like a hit, so I do a monster of great chicken and dressing. I’m going to be doing some good cooking.” But will Chef Aretha…

THREE crooks slipped away with $1 million worth of imported eels — until they were reeled in with a sting operation! On June 1, the trio cooked up fake papers and carted off 2,000 boxes of Chinese barbecued eels from a New Jersey shipping terminal. The eel owners, Mars Global, reported the heist and began tracking the fish, which were being fenced to New York restaurants. Working with police, the owners set up a sting to buy 200 boxes of eels. Cops then tracked the thieves to a warehouse, retrieved 745 more boxes of eels and arrested Wei Da Li, 39, of Queens; Sheauloon Yat, 51, of Brooklyn; and Fa Deng, 36. “This could kill the company,” says a Mars Global rep. “Unfortunately, we didn’t recover the whole thing.”…

STONER President Barack Obama has a new title after ripping into his daughter Malia for her hard-partying ways — Hypocrite-in-Chief! Barack went into crisis mode while on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard — after Malia, 18, was hauled out of a wild party by Secret Service agents just moments before local cops raided the house, sources say! The near-bust came just days after shocking video and photographs surfaced of Malia partying at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago on July 31 — twerking and holding a funny-looking cigarette spy-witnesses later said was a marijuana joint. An insider says the house party in West Tisbury, Mass., was the last straw for the president — even though he parties with pot at the White House and has sucked down wacky weed since he…

EDDIE MURPHY claims he stayed clear of the rampant drug culture at “Saturday Night Live” in the ‘80s! “I don’t drink. I don’t have, like, this moral thing about it, I just don’t do it — and I didn’t get high,” says the 55-year-old funnyman. The “48 Hrs.” star even recalls an outing when fellow comedians “(John) Belushi and Robin Williams offered me some blow and I didn’t take it — and Belushi called me a ‘tightass!’” ›› Sex: In America an obsession. obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. — Marlene Dietrich…

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A WEDDING TO REMEMBER ON ‘GH’ JASON and Sam are set to tie the knot on “General Hospital” this week, and Kelly Monaco reveals that she had a hand in choosing her character’s wardrobe for the big day. “I did a little research online, and I finally came up with this one dress that Elizabeth Taylor had worn in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ ” she shares. “There was something magical about this dress and it was an honor to wear it.” As far as what’s next for the duo, Monaco teases, “Where we are right now, it could go in any direction. Anything could happen!” BEDROOM DRAMA FOR ‘B&B’ STAR NOW that Eric’s in a hot romance with Rena Sofer’s Quinn on “The Bold and the Beautiful,” John…

HERE’S a recipe guaranteed to be finger-lickin’ good — Colonel Harland Sanders’ original formula for making his popular Kentucky-style fried fowl. Joe Ledington, 67, whose late aunt Claudia was the famed restaurateur’s second wife, found a chicken recipe in a scrapbook she kept before her 1997 death. “I’m pretty sure it’s pretty close to the original,” declares Joe, who lives in the Bluegrass State. But his claim is ruffling feathers at KFC’s parent company, Yum! Brands. Corporate execs claim the formula isn’t the real McCoy. Bigwigs insist the recipe — with 11 herbs and spices — has been kept under lock and key since Sanders (who wasn’t actually a colonel) founded the fast-food chain in 1930 — and only they know it! Still, food experts at the Chicago Tribune, where…

DENNIS HOPPER wasn’t known for wholesome, clean living on or off the screen, which makes this 1960 photo — can you hear him saying, “Got milk?” — such a classic. Taken five years after his movie debut in “Rebel Without a Cause” with pal James Dean, clean-cut Dennis had yet to unleash his inner badass. But the actor revved up his reputation with his 1969 counterculture biker smash hit “Easy Rider.” Hopper spent much of the 1970s in a cocaineand-tequila haze, and one of his five wives, Michelle Phillips, divorced him after just over a week of marriage. But Dennis, who died in 2010, saved his greatest fireworks for his movies, playing some of the most deranged characters in history. As a drug-addled journalist in “Apocalypse Now” and psychopath Frank…

TALK show legend Larry King is caught in a bitter divorce drama after his wife of 19 years was discovered cheating with another man! King’s wife, Shawn, 56, enjoyed steamy afternoon sex sessions with public-speaking guru Richard Greene, whose clients have included the late Princess Diana, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith as well as U.S. senators. Shawn’s steamy affair with Richard also included X-rated video chats, along with sleazy nude photos of herself and sex-filled text messages. The two reportedly met when Richard was a guest on a podcast Shawn co-hosts with her husband. Before the scandal exploded, Shawn “was ready to divorce Larry for this guy, but the guy was hesitant about it,” one source reveals. Now insiders say it is Larry, 82, who is faced with the…

GROWN men are zanily dressing up as pastelcolored ponies in a shocking phenomenon that warps a classic children’s cartoon! Called Bronies — a term that combines “bro” and “pony” — these superfans of “My Little Pony” even gather at conventions to indulge in their kinky antics. An annual event dubbed BronyCon recently pulled more than 7,000 men to Baltimore for frolicking and fun — and bizarre behavior! Bronies give themselves colorful, cartoonish names, like Butterfly Shimmer. They enjoy dressing up in wigs and glitter, collecting the dolls sold for little girls at toy stores. Though some identify as gay, many Bronies are straight men — and one expert tells GLOBE their fetish isn’t as freaky as it sounds! “Bronies are sensitive men in a world that doesn’t honor male sensitivity,”…

BALDING KEIRA FLIPS HER WIG! Oscar nominee KEIRA KNIGHTLEY almost became the bald and the beautiful after damaging her locks for movie roles! “I have dyed my hair virtually every color imaginable for different films. It go so bad that my hair literally began to fall out of my head,” the “Pride and Prejudice” star reveals. “So for the past five years I’ve used wigs — which is the greatest thing that has ever happened to my hair.” Way to get ahead! BINDI’S CHANDLER IS JUST LIKE DAD! Adorable teen queen BINDI IRWIN and pro wakeboarder boyfriend CHANDLER POWELL recently caught a crocodile together on a team outing for the Australia Zoo — using a technique created by her late dad, STEVE IRWIN. “To see Chandler in khaki as such…

TRAGIC soul singer Aretha Franklin is being ravaged by a lung condition that will silence her legendary voice forever — and put her in the grave! That’s the shocking fears of Aretha’s friends who say chronic breathing problems and her whopping 293-pound waistline forced the 5-foot-5 R&B songbird to quit her current tour — and retire for good. “Her lung damage has caught up with her,” declares a longtime friend. “It’s very bad. “Aretha may never sing again! And, even if she does, she no longer has the power to belt the songs out like she used to.” A heavy smoker for many years, the 74-year-old “R-E-SP-E-C-T” diva was seen gasping for air on her current tour. Then on Aug. 22, she announced that “due to doctors’ orders, I will…

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ROCKER Steven Tyler has been thrown for a loop-the-loop by Disney! The Aerosmith frontman was up in arms after his “three-fingered salute” — a crude gesture known as “the shocker” — was edited out of an intro video to the Rock N’ Roller Coaster at Florida’s Disney Hollywood Studios. “Now I’m in ‘Shock,’ ” he posted on Facebook. “Way to give me the finger now Walt Disney World ... 17 years later.” But Tyler wasn’t that upset — he called the coaster, “The greatest ride at Disney.”…

“I recorded a lot of things drunk — because I was a drunk” FORMER Beatle Ringo Starr — who once nearly beat his actresswife Barbara Bach to death during a booze-fueled frenzy — is back in rehab! In a world exclusive, GLOBE has learned the lovable 76-year-old drummer checked into a clinic two weeks ago and is expected to stay until sometime in September. Hopefully, the treatment will take because he and his All-Starr Band are scheduled to tour in October. The stickman was spotted outside an AA meeting with his sober coach on Aug. 23, but “wanted to go into rehab for a ‘tune-up,’ ” says a source. “As a long-recovering alcoholic, he’s constantly worried about falling off the wagon. The temptations to drink and do drugs again are…

MODERN royal scandals have nothing on Queen Victoria, who was an insatiable sexpot — despite the prudish era that bears her name! Now the monarch’s sexploits are set to be featured in a sin-sational TV series on PBS — which airs early next year — called “Victoria.” But the current royals aren’t amused. The Royal Rompers “Queen Elizabeth and Charles are furious about the show,” says a palace insider. “Charles, in particular, fears the program will re-ignite some interest in his own sexual follies.” Certainly, the bisexual blue blood has reason to quake in his boots. His affair with current wife Camilla is said to have been the motive for first wife Diana’s murder! Recently, he’s been caught kissing a young man in public. His brother, Andrew, also has a…

RENÉE ZELLWEGER is back, returning to the screen after six years away, as her alter ego in ”Bridget Jones’s Baby.” Here are 10 things you didn’t know about her. 1 Though Renée grew up in Texas, her father is Swiss and her mother is Norwegian. 2 She worked as a cocktail waitress at a strip club to help pay her way through college. 3 She got her Screen Actors Guild union card for doing a Coors Light commercial. 4 Her first lead movie role was in 1994’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation” — with Matthew McConaughey! 5 Renée loves musicians. Her current beau is bluesman Doyle Bramhall II and she was also briefly linked to rocker Jack White. 6 The iconic “You had me at ‘hello’” line from “Jerry…

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BIGHEARTED Brad Pitt’s Make It Right charity AND the homes it built for needy folks devastated by Hurricane Katrina are collapsing — just like his marriage to Angelina Jolie! In fact, the charity’s director of innovations, Tim Duggan, has quit amid rumors Brad has been focused on “fixing his marital issues” instead of tending to business. CEO Tom Darden has also bolted along with four board members. And a slew of the 110 homes built in Katrinaravaged Louisiana are falling down. Lumber has rotted and flat roofs had to be replaced for failing to protect against Louisiana’s torrential rains. “Brad Pitt’s nonprofit organization is in complete disarray,” says a source. The star set up the New Orleans-based foundation after the ruin left by Katrina in 2007. But since building the…

DISNEY teen star Bella Thorne has come out of the closet and admits she likes kissing gals! The 18-year-old redhead, who played CeCe Jones on Disney’s “Shake It Up,” confessed she was “bisexual” when a photo of her smooching another gal appeared online — just days after breaking up with boyfriend-of-a-year, Gregg Sulkin. Bella thanked her fans for supporting her, saying, “Aww thank you for all the accepting tweets from everyone.” As for her breakup with Gregg, who stars on MTV’s “Faking It,” she noted: “Our schedules made seeing each other difficult.” SPOT THE EVIL TWIN Were these celeb look-alikes separated at birth?…

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