Table of contents for October 18, 2021 in Globe

HOLY SCARECROW! Batman hunk BEN AFFLECK appears ghostly and gaunt while visiting the Big Apple BARKING MAD Twiggy Men in Trees actress ANNE HECHE looks loony outside a West Hollywood restaurant STONE AGE ROCKERS Geezers MICK JAGGER, 78, and KEITH RICHARDS, 77, kick off the Rolling Stones’ No Filter tour in Missouri ROLL MODEL Fashion heavyweight TESS HOLLIDAY pulls her own weight when it comes to maintaining her massive figure! BIG SOFTIE Cobra Kai’s MARTIN KOVE pampers his piggies in L.A. after practice at the Dancing with the Stars studio BUGGING OUT Movie legend SOPHIA LOREN gets gussied up for an L.A. bash — but her spider lashes are a fright…

SEEMS paradise is lost for good this time after on-again, off-again Bachelorette couple Dale Moss and Clare Crawley have gone their separate ways! Hairstylist Clare, 40, chose former football hunk Dale, 33, during the reality dating show’s 16th season in 2020, but they reportedly clashed over where to live and when to have kids. “Building a relationship, in general, is tough, especially when you’re doing it in the public eye,” the NFL alum explained during one of their painful partings.…

IN A bittersweet ending, longtime marrieds Linda and Cal Dunham died from COVID one minute apart as they lovingly held hands. Relatives say Linda, 66, and Cal, 59, were fully vaccinated, but also suffered serious underlying medical issues that made the Grand Rapids, Mich., sweethearts extra vulnerable to the killer virus. Devastated daughter Sarah says the couple, who passed away on Sept. 26, got sick during a family camping trip. “My dad called me before our family camping trip and said he wasn’t feeling good,” recalls shattered Sarah, who says Cal initially thought he had a “sinus” problem. She says her mom insisted “he gave me his cold.” But on “the third day they woke me up and said, ‘We’ve got to go because we don’t feel well,’ ” says Sarah.…

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PATRICIA HEATON was finally shocked into getting sober after a “humiliating” moment at a family dinner! The Everybody Loves Raymond actress, 63, says she didn’t believe she was an alcoholic until a dinner party three years ago with three of her four sons. “I started saying, ‘You know, in our family it’s a tradition …’ And I could not pronounce the word ‘tradition.’ I tried three times!” Worse, one of her sons commented: “Oh, great, Mom, you can’t even talk!” “I was so humiliated in front of my sons and their friends,” she admits, that she’s been sober since — and also avoids cocaine after a “crazy” incident that left her so depressed, “I thought, ‘I am never going to do this again because I feel like I’m going to kill myself.’…

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MONEY-HUNGRY Matt and Amy Roloff called a truce in their running feud to make bank on the family’s pumpkin patch, according to spies! The bickering Little People, Big World exes are set to pocket a mountain of moolah as folks flock to Roloff Farms in Hillsboro, Ore., for the fall season, sources say. “Pumpkin season is the farm’s biggest event of the year and means huge dollars,” spills an insider. “They’re expecting more than 30,000 visitors, which means they’ll bring in $150,000 at least, plus tons more with private tours that go for $300 a pop! “Matt and Amy still annoy the heck out of one another, but they’re making a huge effort to get along and it’s because they’re into making pots of money. “People come from around the country…

BABIES aren’t born with kneecaps! They come with small bits of cartilage that eventually turns into bone. CROCODILE Hunter Steve Irwin’s family kept Charles Darwin’s pet tortoise, Harriet, until she died at age 176 in 2006. Harriet outlived the famed naturalist by 124 years. YOU lose up to 30 percent of your taste buds every time you fly, a phenomenon scientists blame on dry air and low air pressure! AFTER losing a fight to win his political party’s nomination for a second term in the White House, President Franklin Pierce declared, “There is nothing left to do but get drunk.” THE only psittacine native to the United States is the thick-billed parrot, which once roamed New Mexico and Arizona but was nearly driven to extinction by the pet trade.…

MEN in Black hunk Will Smith has made a shocking confession: He and wife Jada Pinkett Smith have an open marriage and are allowed to have sex with other people! But the 53-year-old Bad Boys star has been wed to Matrix beauty Jada, 50, since 1997 and is dad of her two kids, Jaden, 23, and Willow, 20. “Marriage for us can’t be a prison,” he declares, adding, “Jada never believed in conventional marriage. Jada had family members that had an unconventional relationship.” He says “for the large part of our relationship, monogamy was what we chose,” but they don’t think monogamy is “the only relational perfection.” Jada has already shockingly admitted to an affair with August Alsina two years ago when she was 48 and the studly singer was…

EXPLOSIVE leaked emails reveal scandal-scarred President Joe Biden’s son Hunter tried to secretly peddle his political influence for $2 million to help unfreeze $150 billion in Libyan blood money seized by the United Nations, investigators claim. According to the documents, Hunter pushed his connections to prove he could help release the cash seized by the UN Security Council in February 2011 to punish Libyan tyrant Muammar Gaddafi for having his military shoot civilians protesting his 41-year rule. At the time, Hunter’s dad was commander in chief Barack Obama’s vice president — and the administration froze some $37 billion itself! Rebel forces deposed and killed Gaddafi that October, then waged a desperate attempt to unfreeze the assets for their new government. Sources say Hunter tried to peddle his lobbying abilities for…

MONACO’S horndog Prince Albert is crushing on screen siren Sharon Stone and thumbing his nose at his humiliated runaway wife, Princess Charlene, stunned insiders say. The 63-year-old scandal-smeared royal was grinning like a cat who ate the canary as he posed arm-in-arm with the glamorous Hollywood beauty at the Monte-Carlo Gala for Planetary Health late last month — with Charlene 5,000 miles away in her South African homeland. Sources snitch the playboy prince, who already supports two love children and is now accused of fathering a third, is gaga over Sharon, 63! However, other spies believe Albert is using the Basic Instinct bombshell to convince gone girl Charlene, 43, to come home and call off a $500 million divorce. “Albert’s been sending Sharon texts and acting all friendly and sweet,…

STAR TREK legend William Shatner is so lost in space without ex-wife Elizabeth Martin, he’s begging to beam her up into his life again — and has even been shopping for a ring to make it official, insiders tell GLOBE! Sources dish the forlorn 90-year-old — who is set to take a private rocket ride and become the oldest man in space later this month — regrets filing for divorce after 18 years of marriage with Elizabeth and wants another chance with the 62-year-old horse trainer he still refers to as his wife! “He wants to do it right, with a beautiful ring and a romantic proposal,” spills an insider. “Even though they’ve been officially divorced for nearly two years, Bill never stopped seeing Elizabeth. They share the same stables. She’s…

ACCUSED groper Chris Cuomo is terrified his TV career may end in scandal, sources spill — barely two months after the CNN anchor’s big brother, Andrew, was forced to step down as New York’s governor under an avalanche of sexual harassment complaints! According to tipsters, the controversial newsman — who was blasted for counseling Andrew, 63, as he was slammed by accusations he preyed on staffers — was left reeling after his former boss at ABC’s Primetime Live revealed he’d once grabbed her butt! “Chris is terrified this is just the tip of the iceberg,” an insider snitches. “He admits this happened but has insisted there were no other incidents. However he can’t remember if he said or did anything inappropriate 16 years ago!” Spies say the younger Cuomo, 51,…

WHITNEY HOUSTON’S baby daddy, Bobby Brown, is fit to be tied over buzz Hollywood honchos are planning to remake her beloved movie, The Bodyguard, and the bigmouthed bad boy has a point! Once again, high-paid studio dimwits can’t come up with new ideas so they’re resorting to remaking a classic. Whatta surprise. These knuckleheads — who have dollar signs for eyeballs — are drooling over their fantasy that a new version of the flick could generate another fortune. In the original, Whitney’s pop star character falls in love with her security man Kevin Costner. It raked in a whopping $400 million worldwide — a bundle for a movie in 1992 and one that’s not a superheroes spectacular. The potential box office bonanza has Hollywood hearing cash registers! Already pop princess…

JAPAN’S Princess Mako is proving she believes in love, not money — she’s giving up a whopping $1.35 million to marry her commoner beau, Kei Komuro. The blown bucks are from a taxpayer-funded payout the 29-year-old royal would normally get for tying the knot with an approved blue blood. But the beauty has been stuck on Kei, 30, since the sweethearts hooked up at a Tokyo eatery while they were studying at the city’s International Christian University. Not only will the niece of Emperor Naruhito be poorer when she weds her true love Kei, who has since graduated from New York’s Fordham Law School, she’ll also lose her title like her aunt, Princess Sayako. Sayako abdicated when she became the first Japanese royal to marry a commoner in 2005. Asked about the…

SHOCKING new research suggests a terrified majority of Americans believe the deadliest days of the COVID pandemic lie ahead — and top doctors tell GLOBE they’re right! “The worst is yet to come,” says Dr. Edward Salib, of Punta Gorda, Fla. “However, I do think that the spring of 2022 may be the light at the end of the tunnel!” A disturbing national survey from Pew Research arrives as America remains mired in virus restrictions, with less than 55 percent of the adult population fully vaccinated amid a new push for mandatory masking. Pew surveyed 10,348 U.S. adults and found 54 percent remain convinced the pandemic will only get uglier before things turn around! The country is still being battered with roughly 150,000 new COVID infections EVERY DAY as the…

ANGELINA JOLIE’s love life is no longer the pits as the scrawny 46-year-old screen siren spent her weekend with 31-year-old singer THE WEEKND! The Maleficent babe wore bewitching black as she met up with the I Feel It Coming crooner at the ritzy Giorgio Baldi Italian eatery, where they canoodled for nearly three hours. Angie apparently bought the Earned It singer’s line because she arrived at the joint solo, but left with the lucky dude into the back of his black SUV, which shuttled the lovely pair to his $70 million Bel-Air digs. Now tongues are wagging nonstop about the glam couple’s hookup since this was their third public spotting. The mother of six, who is locked in a nasty custody battle with ex BRAD PITT, and the Canadian singer…

JODIE COMER The Killing Eve vixen is swimming in an oversized jacket that fails to suit her hourglass figure JULIANNE MOORE What a mesh! The Boogie Nights babe went from a screen siren to a dowdy dud VERA FARMIGA Fuggedaboutit! The Many Saints of Newark mob mom is perfection in hot pink CAREY LOWELL Not to be snippy, but the Law & Order alum’s boring dress is no better than a hair salon cape JACQUELINE BISSET The Class act is the cream of the crop in a chic suit, but her dark-toed shoes are a misstep…

TOP ’90s supermodel Linda Evangelista claims a botched cosmetic procedure has left her “brutally disfigured,” deeply depressed and struggling to find work. The 56-year-old blasts the fat-freezing CoolSculpting procedure for leaving her “permanently deformed” and she’s suing the company responsible! “I have been left unrecognizable,” Linda writes in a blistering Instagram post, adding: “I have become a recluse.” The leggy brunette — who graced over 700 magazine covers — underwent the procedure five years ago and claims it “increased, not decreased” her fat cells. Linda blames her bloated body on “a very rare but serious side effect” she claims to have developed, called paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), where the fat cells targeted by the treatment grew bigger instead of shrinking. “PAH has not only destroyed my livelihood, it has sent…

A N INNOVATIVE drug being developed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) showed promise in recent laboratory trials, according to the manufacturer. The New York–based biotechnology company Neurovation Labs has even received funding from the U.S. Air Force and the Army for further research and development of the pill, which could provide a revolutionary treatment for the disorder. According to Neurovation’s founder Dr. Jennifer Perusini, the medication — which blocks the GluA1 protein — showed effectiveness in tests on mice. Perusini explains the GluA1 biomarker — which is related to memory formation — is created by the brain when someone experiences trauma. When people suffering from PTSD encounter disturbing triggers that can cause them to mentally relive the original event, the biomarker activates. PTSD can affect anyone who lives through…