Indice dei contenuti per December 17, 2018 in Globe

RECLUSIVE comic Jim Carrey says he lives an “isolated life” and admits, “I spend a lot of time by myself, but it’s OK.” The Ace Ventura actor insists, “I love to read, and I enjoy painting and working on sculptures. And I date.” But the funnyman, 56, hasn’t had a public romance since the suicide of ex-girlfriend Cathriona White in 2015. In a wrongful death lawsuit which was tossed out in February, Brigid Sweetman, Cathriona’s heartsick mom, charged Jim cruelly “abused” the Irish-born makeup artist and infected her with “three STDs without warning her” — including herpes — and shamed her by calling her a “whore.” Four days after Cathriona and The Dumb and Dumber star broke up for the second time, she was found dead in her Sherman Oaks,…

"DAN AYKROYD stole my wife and ruined my life!” That’s the claim of angry husband Rick Hawkins who divorced his gorgeous wife, Lisa — a former Miss Virginia — after accusing her of cheating with the Ghost-busters star! “I used to think Dan Aykroyd was really funny on Saturday Night Live and in The Blues Brothers. But what that lowlife did to me was anything but funny,” fumes Hawkins, 59. “He’s a home-wrecker!” Hawkins married Miss Virginia 1983, Lisa Aliff, in 1985 and says she soon hightailed it off to Hollywood where she landed gigs in commercials and on Cheers. Then she got a part in Aykroyd’s 1987 cop movie, Dragnet. “That was the beginning of the end,” says Hawkins — who claims the actor took Lisa on a romantic…

THE world’s worst date got his just desserts — 120 days in jail — after the sleaze skipped out on pricey dinners and left a string of ladies stuck with his tab! Paul Guadalupe Gonzales, 45, has also been ordered to steer clear of his digital hunting grounds — Plenty of Fish and Bumble — for three years, after using the dating apps to hook women to feed his sick habit. The dine-and-dash dirtbag was served the sentence after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors for hoodwinking as many as 18 women who collectively laid out more than $950 to cover the lowlife’s meals. After setting up dates at ritzy California eateries, the coldhearted con artist would stuff his face, excuse himself from the table and vamoose — without forking…

FORMER child star Amanda Bynes, whose acting career crashed and burned due to her wild and bizarre behavior, blames drugs for her nightmare downfall. The 32-year-old former Nickelodeon star, now a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design, says she began toking pot when she was 16 and briefly tried ecstasy and cocaine. Then she got hooked on Adderall while trying to lose weight. She says she’d chew pills in her dressing trailer and it left her “scatterbrained and not being able to focus on my lines or memorize them.” She quit showbiz after seeing herself in the hit 2010 movie Easy A while she was stoned on pot. “I literally couldn’t stand my appearance in that movie. I don’t know if it was a drug-induced psychosis or what. I…

LIVING in a colder, darker climate increases your chances of boozing and suffering from liver disease! That’s the conclusion of new research from the University of Pittsburgh, which discovered as temperature and sunlight hours dropped, people’s alcohol consumption went up. Booze increases the flow of warm blood to the skin, which has many temperature sensors, so drinking increases feelings of warmth. Drinking is also linked to depression, which tends to be worse when it’s dark and chilly outside. “This is the first study that systematically demonstrates that worldwide and in America, in colder areas and areas with less sun, you have more drinking and more alcoholic cirrhosis,” said senior author Dr. Ramon Bataller, an associate director of the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center.…

CLUELESS beauty Alicia Silverstone has been rudely clued in to what it means to marry beneath her. The still gorgeous 42-year-old has to pay ex-hubby Chris Jarecki, 42, a fizzled punk rocker, a whopping $12,000-a-month in spousal support. Alicia’s only hope is that Chris, who has joint custody of seven-year-old son Bear Blu, shacks up with another babe for five months in a year’s time. Then their settlement’s cohabitation clause kicks in — and she’s off the hook!…

CBS head honcho Les Moonves got the boot over a shameful sexual harassment scandal, but the disgraced bigwig’s loyal wife, Julie Chen, has kept her gig as host of Big Brother: Celebrity Edition. The network confirmed that stand-by-your-man Julie, who got a career boost after marrying Les in 2004, will return to the reality show. Even after a gaggle of gals came forward in September accusing the then network CEO of disgusting sexual antics, Julie backed her hubby — who denied the charges — calling him “decent and moral.” However, she quit her gig on The Talk after the scandal broke.…

NEW York State Police captured Fritha the Fugitive Elephant after the 44-year-old pachyderm broke out of a Westtown animal sanctuary to fetch a midnight snack — 6,000 pounds of hay sitting in a field on a neighbor’s farm! The beast made it safely back to her barn. TEXAS tornado Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler, 43, got a big bang out of her divorce — she blew up her wedding dress in an explosion felt 15 miles away! Kim was married for 14 years — and says the experience was “liberating.” WHERE’S Popeye when you really need him? A semitruck hauling a load of spinach flipped on Interstate 71 near Washington Township, Ohio, spreading leafy greens across all northbound lanes and tying up traffic for hours! The cause of the spill is under investigation.…

GODFATHER star Robert De Niro blindsided his wife of 21 years, actress Grace Hightower, with divorce papers — and GLOBE has the inside dish on the dirty split! Raging Bull Robert reportedly blew a fuse over Hightower’s out of control spending — and reached the breaking point over her treatment of their 20-year-old autistic son, Elliot, sources say. The couple has been without a permanent home since a fire gutted their posh pad on New York’s Central Park West in June 2012 — and now, the Hollywood legend, 75, is ready to be a bachelor in his final days! “Grace can’t believe it,” says a source. “Robert’s telling people she’s been spending like crazy. They are also hamstrung by Elliot, who is seriously disabled by autism. It’s a big stress.”…

Morning Joe news pundits JOE SCARBOROUGH and MIKA BRZEZINSKI got hitched in — where else? — at the National Archives rotunda in Washington, D.C. Malcolm’s in the Middle of marriage. Star FRANKIE MUNIZ popped the question to model galpal PAIGE PRICE. MILEY CYRUS’ music-making bro BRAISON played the engagement song to model STELLA McBRIDE. “She said ‘yes,’ ” he tweets. Reality show and sex tape star PARIS HILTON, 37, has given the boot to Leftovers actor-fiancé CHRIS ZYLKA, 33. Guess she’s tired of yesterday’s meal. Game of Thrones princess NATALIE DORMER is kaput with writer-director ANTHONY BYRNE. Their love-in lasted 11 years. Spider-Man TOBEY MAGUIRE treated galpal TATIANA DIETEMAN to a jewelry store outing. She was trying on rings at Beverly Hills’ XIV Karats. No marriage in sight. They were…

EMILY BLUNT’S reinvention of one of Hollywood’s most famous nannies in Mary Poppins Returns has been labeled as delightful in every way by many critics. But the British-born actress admits she was “shocked” to be offered the role of the title character in the sequel to 1964’s Mary Poppins. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 35-year-old star. 1 Acting helped her overcome a childhood speech impediment. “It was so freeing that my stuttering stopped when I was onstage. It was really a miracle,” Emily says. 2 She first saw Jaws at ten years old and calls it her all-time favorite movie. 3 Emily was a straight arrow as a kid and admits, “I’d love to be exciting and say that I was the rebel, but sadly I…

A NAKED burglar’s crime streak came to an end as cops claim they’ve caught the crook — thanks to the butthead’s recognizable tattoo! Jeremy Lawrence, 47, of Florence, Ariz., was collared after the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office received a tip on Nov. 10 from a man who noticed an “exotic tree” was missing from his property and thought Lawrence was to blame. The caller also fingered Lawrence as the perp likely responsible for a recent heist at his neighbor’s home, which deputies say was robbed of 25 air conditioner evaporator coils and a radiator belonging to a vintage truck. Similarities to cold cases led lawmen to tie Lawrence to an incident in August, when cops say he swiped plants from another residence while wearing nothing but shoes and gloves. Surveillance…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Monday finds you running around in a tizzy after getting news that suddenly changes your plans. But relax, Ram! Mercury says this is all for the best! You’re motivated to spend Friday turning your house into a cozy nest. Invite fun friends over for a weekend party to celebrate. Wear red for luck. TAURUS April 21 - May 21 Single? Changing your route to work or running errands is the path to romance midweek. You’ll meet someone oh-so-special and be on a date by the weekend! Meanwhile, married Bulls could be squabbling over a family project. Luckily, you’ll kiss and make up in time to enjoy Sunday’s good news. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Jealousy rears its ugly head when a friend boasts…

PRINCE William confesses flying an air ambulance sent him into a secret tailspin — and he wound up fighting depression! The future king reveals “traumatic” incidents involving kids pushed him “over the edge” during his two-year gig piloting a rescue helicopter. “I worked several times on very traumatic jobs involving children,” says William, who’s now a father of three. “After I had my own children, I think the relation between the job and the personal life was what really took me over the edge.” While working for the East Anglian Air Ambulance, “I started feeling things that I have never felt before, and I got very sad and very down about this particular family,” says the 36-year-old royal. Talking to colleagues helped, he says, “but even that wasn’t quite enough”…

BELOVED comic Carol Burnett is going bald — the final insult after a lifetime of tragedy and stress! Although the 85-year-old TV legend tries to hide her dramatically receding hairline, medical experts insist many post-menopausal women go bald — and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. New York internist Dr. Stuart Fischer, who hasn’t treated the star, says Carol’s “frontal balding” may be due to “stress” or other health issues, including “thyroid disease, autoimmune illness and most importantly, the side effect of many medications.” The doc notes, “Almost any medication could theoretically cause hair loss — for example, steroids for severe arthritis as well as antidepressants.” He says, “Rogaine shampoo is helpful in the earliest stages, as are certain nutritional supplements.” Transplants can also be effective, but they “won’t help if…

TWIST AND SHOUT The Big Bang Theory’s KALEY CUOCO loses her cool while hubby KARL COOK gets goofy at Disneyland MICHAEL DOUGLAS DODGES A BULLET! CATHERINE ZETA-JONES reveals she had an explosive face-to-face showdown with hubby MICHAEL DOUGLAS — in front of their son, DYLAN, 18, and daughter, CARYS, 15 — over shocking sexual charges leveled against him by a gal last January. The woman claimed Michael, who has said he got throat cancer from too much oral sex, masturbated in front of her when she worked for him 30 years ago. Catherine says she was at first “devastated” by the charges, but believed him when he swore it was a “complete lie.” Now, she says she feels vindicated because no one else has come forward with a similar story.…

PORKER Penny Lancaster has packed on 30 pounds since having two kids with rocker Rod Stewart, 73, who encourages his wider wife to “go for a run” to feel better about herself! The 47-year-old former model admits she’s long had a “ravenous appetite,” but is now “distressed” over her much fuller figure. “When I hit 40ish, the pounds started going on. I can’t stop eating,” says Penny, mom to sons Aiden, 7, and Alastair, 13. “When the kids were eating, I would go ‘Oh, are you finished, darling?’ and have a bit of their food. “I was still in this habit of eating and now I’m piling on the pounds, and I’m finding it very difficult to shed them,” admits the heftier British TV host.…

A DEPRAVED deputy was busted for raping a 14-year-old girl after cops say the sicko attacked the vulnerable teen while investigating a sex crime committed against her by another callous creep! Neil Kimball, 45, a 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, is being held on $2 million bail after being cuffed on suspicion of rape by force and preventing or dissuading a victim from testifying. Authorities charge he attacked the “tied or bound” minor in November 2017 in Ventura County while investigating a case with the Special Victims Bureau. The complaint is the second to come to light against the lawman. Kimball was investigated in 2009 after a woman claimed he’d forced her to touch his genitals. But prosecutors tossed that case, citing lack of evidence.…

TOUGH guy rocker Bruce Springsteen confesses he’s had a long struggle with mental illness after a shocking crack-up when he was 32 years old! Now 69, the Born in the U.S.A. singer says his emotional collapse had been building all his life and ties it to his relationship with the blue-collar dad he idolized. His father, Doug, never told him “I love you,” and that broke Bruce’s heart. As a result, The Boss hardened himself — and cut himself off from love. “All I know is that the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier, much heavier,” he says. “With each passing year, the price of our refusal to do that sorting becomes higher and higher. “We ignore our demons at our peril.” Bruce’s breakdown happened when he and a…

FOSSILIZED wreckage discovered on a mountaintop in Iran has been identified as the remains of Noah’s Ark! According to experts from the Bible Archaeology, Search & Exploration (BASE) Institute, there is strong evidence the biblical vessel’s final resting place is at Mount Takhte-Soleyman — a peak which extends more than 15,000 feet toward the heavens. The BASE Institute claims they’ve found a large object near the top of the mountain, whose Hebrew name translates as The Throne of Solomon. The organization’s president, Bob Cornuke, says measurements of the ruins “fits the approximate dimensions of Noah’s Ark.” The boat’s existence and location are some of the greatest unanswered mysteries of the Bible. According to the holy book, God ordered Noah to construct the vessel to save his family and the world’s…

LOVE-STARVED diva Barbra Streisand is secretly battling a compulsive eating disorder — and doctors warn the obsession is pushing her to the brink of death! Streisand, 76, admits she “eats when I’m happy” and also wolfs down buckwheat pancakes smothered with butter and maple syrup when she’s sad! Dr. Stuart Fischer tells GLOBE the Oscar-winning songbird is on a destructive path that puts her at high risk to deadly medical conditions. “Overeating can obviously lead to an increased risk for heart disease and hypertension — plus dozens of other illnesses,” says Fischer, who hasn’t treated the actress. “Pancakes, syrup and butter cannot solve any of life’s problems.” Life span expert Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who also has not treated Barbra, adds, “Weight gain, particularly excess fat in the liver, becomes far…

SAL MINEO (right) was a scrawny kid from the Bronx who managed to muscle his way into Hollywood history with a breakthrough performance in 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause. Captured here at the dawn of his career, Mineo would star in a string of hits including Giant, Tonka and Crime in the Streets before he aged out of the types of parts that made him famous. Dogged by rumors he was gay, Sal struggled to score leading-man roles in the ’60s. He eventually came out as bisexual in 1972 — four years before he was fatally stabbed in the heart during a robbery outside the West Hollywood pad he shared with up-and-coming actor pal Don Johnson.…