Innehållsförteckning för March 22, 2021 från Globe

MADONNA’S desperate limelight-grabbing antics — racy and weird social media posts like she’s still a twentysomething vamp — has her embarrassed kids pleading with their diva mom to knock it off, sources say. The Material Girl’s daughter Lourdes Leon, 24, and son Rocco Ritchie, 20, are fed up with the 62-year-old singer’s bizarre publicity stunts like her latest Instagram dump, where she greeted fans with a deep voice, overdone makeup and Marilyn Monroe act, droning: “Hi everybody out there, it’s been a while since I directly made contact with my friends and followers, taken the time to care about the way I look and stuff. “In fact, I really haven’t done that. My hair’s a mess. I think I may have put on too much pink eyeshadow.” An insider notes…

BRUCE CUT LOOSE FROM BOOZE BUST No big loss for The Boss, a.k.a. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, who got slapped on the wrist with a wee $540 fine following his drunk driving arrest last November. The iconic Born to Run singer, 71, pleaded guilty to boozing with fans at a N.J. park, then dodged DWI and reckless driving charges because prosecutors couldn’t make ’em stick. “I had two small shots of tequila,” admitted the Grammy winner, copping to a single count of drinking in a closed area. Ain’t no lie either! Prosecutors dropped the more serious charges because Bruce’s blood alcohol content was a measly 0.02, well below the state’s legal limit. So, no star-power funny business. “I think I can pay that fine immediately, Your Honor,” he told the judge! KALUUYA…

FUNNYMAN Kenan Thompson debuted with Saturday Night Live in 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the history of the sketch comedy show. This year, the SNL cutup is also playing an earnest widower striving to be a super dad on the NBC sitcom Kenan, which co-stars Don Johnson as his meddling father-in-law. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 42-year-old actor. 1 During his childhood, his first acting role was Toto the dog in a church production of The Wiz. He had no lines. 2 As a kid he binged on The Price Is Right and calls the game show “very joyful viewing.” 3 He has a passion for bicycles and often pedals to work in NYC. 4 The first concert he attended featured The Isley…

A SNIPPY husband walked in on his cheating wife and hacked off her lover’s penis with a pair of scissors! Florida dairy worker Alex Bonilla, 51, pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the July 2019 dismemberment. But Bonilla claims he “blacked out” and doesn’t remember dinging the guy’s dong! A graphic pre-sentence report said the married father of five stormed into his victim’s mobile home in Bell, held him at gunpoint so he could tie him up and neutered the dude — taunting him the entire time. The report added Bonilla waltzed off with the man’s willy, which has not been found — leaving the neighbor unable to have sex or urinate normally.…

A DEATHBED letter by an undercover cop revealing New York City police and FBI conspired to murder civil rights icon Malcolm X has been exposed as a shocking fake! Kelly Wood, daughter of former policeman Ray Wood, says the explosive document made public by Malcolm X’s daughters Qubilah, Ilyasah, and Gamilah Shabazz on the 56th anniversary of the Muslim leader’s assassination is a forgery. “I know that my father did not write this letter,” declares Kelly. “I know that is not his signature and I know the envelope they’re using to somehow justify that the letter was mailed is also a fake.” As GLOBE reported, Ray was an undercover cop in 1965 and wrote that he got members of Malcolm X’s security detail involved in a plot to put a…

BLOODTHIRSTY gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel dreamed of becoming a movie star and hobnobbed with celebrities like Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra and Clark Gable! The co-founder of mob hit squad Murder Inc. also carried on affairs with a string of actresses, including platinum blond bombshell Jean Harlow, and was a fixture at Hollywood hot spots, according to a new book. “He was a gangster capitalist and a gangster celebrity: Gatsby with a penchant to kill,” author Michael Shnayerson writes in the new bio Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream. The ruthless mobster also arranged a screen test for himself, visited powerful studio heads Louis B. Mayer and Jack Warner, and hung out at Ciro’s, the Trocadero and the Clover Club. But his elegant manners and immaculate…

TV COP Tom Selleck has packed on nearly 100 pounds, leaving the Blue Bloods star bloated and struggling to walk, say insiders, who fear for his health. The 76-year-old chunk once was 194 pounds of beefcake on a six-foot-four frame, but his taste for pie, daytime pigouts and late-night fridge raids have him near a scale-smashing 300 pounds, sources dish. “Lack of exercise, excess weight and work stress could spell disaster and possibly lead to an early grave,” spills an insider. “He’s always been a big steak and potatoes guy — but now the more carbs he consumes, the lazier and fatter he seems to get. “Food appears to be his main source of comfort these days. Right now Tom’s almost 300 pounds.” The extra weight can’t help his struggles…

SKIPPER, the world’s first six-legged puppy, is alive and well after a special delivery at the Neel Veterinary Hospital in Oklahoma City. The pooch has a single head and chest cavity, but two pelvic regions and two tails. CHICAGO crime lord Al Capone’s armored limo was confiscated by the feds — and later used to protect President Franklin Delano Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. HOT dog! Los Angeles residents eat more wieners, about 31 million pounds annually, than folks who live in any other city. Philly holds second place. The Big Apple is in third. ACTOR Robert Downey Jr. insists Burger King saved his life from his drug addiction — because the food was so terrible he knew he’d hit rock bottom and “thought something bad was going…

TRAIN wreck Charlie Sheen has finally confessed he regrets the drug-fueled, party-and-porn star binge that got him fired from his hit sitcom Two and a Half Men, when he was the highest-paid actor on TV, raking in more than $40 million a year! On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the outrageous spree where the stoned star claimed he was “winning,” had “tiger’s blood” in his veins and “Adonis DNA,” and was shacking up with two porn “goddesses,” the now 55-year-old admits: “I was getting loaded and my brain wasn’t working right.” He also recalls rebuffing former CBS kingpin Les Moonves, who tried to save him by showing up at his house, saying: “OK, the Warner jet is fueled up on the runway. “Wheels up in an hour and going…

JUDI DENCH is going blind, but she’s still acting thanks to friends who read to her so she can memorize scripts. The film icon, 86, suffers from incurable, age-related macular degeneration that is destroying her vision. “I’ve had to find another way of learning lines, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over,” she confesses. “I just hope people won’t notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!”…

What’s on the menu? Apparently it’s CNN sizzler and Hunger Games hunk STANLEY TUCCI, who’s suddenly become a steamy dish of Italian beefcake! The bald sexagenarian‘s unexpectedly whetting all kinds of appetites with his cable hit travel/food series, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. Here are just a few comments posted by panting female fans: “Stanley Tucci has no right to look this good walking the streets of Italy,” “Stanley Tucci discussing Italy and food with his Stanley voice is hot,” “Stanley Tucci is so HOT on that CNN Italy food show. That clean bald head, those tight clothes, that BULGE. I can’t help myself,” and “Stanley Tucci talking about fried pizza dough is my sexual preference.” Get the picture? “At age 60, I feel wonderful about it,” admits the American-born…

YIPPEE-KI-YAY, momma! Charlize Theron wants to oust Bruce Willis and play the lead in a lesbian remake of the 1988 action thriller Die Hard! In the butch new version, tough-cop character John McClane would be a Jane — and Mad Max: Fury Road star Charlize would be kicking butt while saving her wife from terrorists! “The fact that it would be two women,” says the 45-year-old Oscar winner, “I was like, yeah, sign me on!”…

JUNK food isn’t only bad for you, it can also be addicting! A study of more than 500 people found pizza, chocolate, potato chips, cookies, ice cream, French fries and cheeseburgers were likely to trigger “addictive-like” eating behaviors. Those behaviors included intense cravings, loss of control and being unable to cut back despite experiencing harmful consequences and a strong desire to stop eating the food. Junk foods are also highly processed and light up regions of the brain that regulate reward, emotion and motivation. They also share a lot in common with addictive substances, experts say. One study found when people cut back on junk foods, they experienced symptoms similar to a drug user’s withdrawal, such as irritability, fatigue, feelings of sadness and cravings.…

BRAVE Bindi Irwin is vowing to end the vicious feud that’s ripped her family apart before giving birth to her baby girl, insiders tell GLOBE. Sources say the mom-tobe, 22, desperately wants her paternal grandfather, Bob Irwin, at the hospital before she gives birth, but her mother, Terri, 56, refuses to agree! The mother-daughter friction was clear to see when heavily pregnant Bindi and hubby Chandler Powell were recently snapped locked in a tense conversation with Terri, according to spies. “They’ve been butting heads over the issue for weeks,” spills an insider. “Bindi wants the birth to be a happy, special day for everyone. “Whatever Bob did or said was ages ago and Bindi believes Terri needs to forgive him for everyone’s sake.” Family friends claim Oregon-born Terri still fumes…

JFK’S handsome grandson Jack Schlossberg has been secretly crushing on Kendall Jenner and his pals are urging the shy lug to make a move on the hottie, sources claim. The 28-year-old Harvard grad and son of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg was so smitten with the 25-year-old Kardashian kin, he went up to her half sis Kim at an event two years ago and asked her to “hook him up.” Kim said she’d love to, but Kendall was then dating NBA player Ben Simmons. “Kim loved the idea and gave Jack her number,” says the source. “She said you never know what will happen in the future. “But no sooner did Kendall split with Simmons, then Jack heard she’d moved on with another NBA player, Devin Booker.” Now his pals…

SILENCE of the Lambs star Anthony Hopkins refuses to discuss being estranged from his only child, actress Abigail Hopkins, calling the subject “taboo.” “I want no word on that,” snaps the 83-year-old Oscar winner. Abigail, 52, was born during Hopkins’ first marriage to actress Petronella Barker. They divorced when she was a small child. “The past is sealed,” adds Hopkins. “I have regrets. You can’t undo things. You have to get on with life.”…

It’s a boy for first-time mom KATHARINE McPHEE, 36, and composer hubby DAVID FOSTER, 71, who has five adult daughters from prior relationships. Brit pop star ELLIE GOULDING, 34, is expecting her first stork visit with art dealer husband CASPAR JOPLING, 29. The Love Me Like You Do singer learned of her unexpected surprise pregnancy on the couple’s one-year anniversary! Expecting their fourth baby, all grown up Teen Mom OG pair CATELYNN LOWELL, 28, and husband TYLER BALTIERRA, 29, are once again in the pink. “We have found out that we are going to be having a, drumroll please, another girl,” gushes the pregnant MTV reality star. Casting about: Shiver me timbers! Guardians of the Galaxy star ZOE SALDANA sets sail for Netflix’s new pirate series, The Bluff. The 42-year-old…

SEX offender Taray Herring has been charged with the sickening abuse of a corpse after police found a stomach-churning stash of human body parts — including deep-fried hands and feet — in plastic bags! Philadelphia lawmen made the revolting discovery after being called to the home of 70-year-old massage therapist Peter Gerold, who hadn’t been seen for a week, for a welfare check and suspected burglary. When they arrived, they spied a U-Haul truck driving away from the house, followed and stopped it. “Driver side door opened up, driver came out with his hands up and said, ‘I didn’t do it, it wasn’t me. I was paid to move a body,’” say officers. In the back, they made a horrific find, a man’s chopped-up body parts. The driver was later…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Action is the secret to success, Ram. Stop talking and start working toward that cherished goal. A fellow Aries helps you work out a financial issue and for some this leads to a cash bonus linked to paperwork signed last year. Single? Be open to love with one not your typical type. You’ll meet Friday. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Cosmic clashes get your week off to a cranky start, and when stunning family news arrives, you may feel completely overwhelmed. But thankfully, the Cancer moon brings calm and by the weekend, you’re smiling again! Some Twins could adopt a pet or take in a pup that shows up on the doorstep. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 News you’ve been waiting for…

A SHOCKING decoding of the ancient Hebrews’ holy book the Torah predicts the COVID pandemic will end — but only after the U.S. goes to war with Iran — and it looks like the chilling prophecy is coming true, according to religious experts. In the book Yalkut Shimoni, a mystic Bible analysis written by Jewish scholars in the 13th century, an 800-year-old prophecy foresees a world war triggered by “Persia [Iran], Arabia and Edom [nations of the West],” which also predicts “great strife and darkness into the world” a month before the end of a “plague.” Acclaimed seer Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchaki, who died in 1105, is quoted as saying: “The king of Persia will provoke the king of Arabia, and the king of Arabia will go to Edom to…