Table of contents for November 4, 2024 in Globe

NICE PUMPKINS! Reality babe HEIDI MONTAG doesn’t let anything squash her enthusiasm for autumn fun! HOWLING GOOD TIME Life’s still a cabaret for LIZA MINNELLI as the frail Oscar winner manages to kick up her heels! SLICE OF LIFE Turning 77 is a cakewalk for rocker SAMMY HAGAR as the rocker celebrates in Las Vegas A REAL HEAD CASE King of Queens star KEVIN JAMES gets his chrome dome polished on the set of Solo Mio in Rome RED-LETTER DAY It’s no bull — Traffic’s BENICIO DEL TORO unveils his very own plaque at France’s Lumière Film Festival HOW BATTY Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR sinks her fangs into a treat at a California theme park…

COUNTRY music icon and TV star Reba McEntire has whipped her actor beau Rex Linn into a slimmer, trimmer shape because, sources say, she wanted him looking good for her new TV sitcom Happy’s Place! Linn, the 67-year-old former star of CSI: Miami, has dropped up to a whopping 25 pounds, according to docs, and his health is better — and the couple’s love life is sizzling! “Rex has Reba to thank for this,” spills an insider. “She now has a leaner lover and everything about the two of them is better! “She didn’t want a dumpy dude on her show — especially when the world KNOWS they’re a couple in real life!” The 69-year-old twice-divorced redhead calls Rex “the love of my life.” “I think we have made each…

ACCUSED Afghan terrorist Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was plotting a bloody Election Day attack on American soil — but the wannabe martyr was nabbed in the nick of time, lawmen say. Shockingly, sources snitch, 27-year-old Tawhedi worked as security for the CIA in his native Afghanistan before entering the U.S. on a special immigrant visa days after the Biden administration’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from the Middle Eastern nation! The ticket to freedom was just one of more than 70,000 doled out to eligible Afghans fleeing the war-torn country amid the pullout. Records show Tawhedi was still on parole status pending his final immigration screening when he was arrested. The Department of Homeland Security’s visa program allowed Afghans who helped Americans to apply for entry into the U.S. with their families and…

Proud DONALD TRUMP took a break from slamming presidential rival KAMALA HARRIS to announce his daughter TIFFANY, 31, and her Nigerian billionaire hubby, MICHAEL BOULOS, 27, are expecting. No word how the baby will vote. Rocker MICK JAGGER and JERRY HALL’s 32-year-old model-daughter, GEORGIA MAY, delivered her own Rolling Stone, a baby boy, on Sept. 30. Thrilled dad is 24-year-old skateboard whiz CAMBRYAN SEDLICK. Parks and Recreation funnygal AMY POEHLER, 53, has found romance with podcaster JOEL LOVELL, 54. Big-hearted TAYLOR SWIFT penned a $5 million check to help communities ravaged by hurricanes Helene and Milton. TORI SPELLING, 51, swears her split from recovering boozer DEAN MCDERMOTT, 57 and dad of her five kids, really is “amicable,” saying: “I know in Hollywood people think divorces have to be ugly —…

FRAIL family matriarch Ethel Kennedy was driven to the grave by the embarrassing exploits of her black sheep son Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sources claim. Revelations of Bobby’s recent sex scandal along with his bizarre beliefs and humiliating antics was said to break the fabled Ethel’s heart even as the rest of the Kennedy clan turned against him, insiders say. “It killed Ethel to see the Kennedy legacy shredded to tatters by Bobby,” confides a family snitch. Ethel, 96, had already endured so much tragedy in her heartbreaking life — including having both her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and brother-in-law President John F. Kennedy killed by assassins’ bullets — our source says she was gutted to see her 70-year-old son drag the fabled family name through the mud. As GLOBE…

SHOCK rocker Marilyn Manson is still in the sights of prosecutors in L.A., who say they’re reviewing new leads and additional evidence before deciding whether or not to charge the Beautiful People singer with sex crimes! Multiple women have accused the heavy metal hitmaker of rape and torture. Manson, 55, insists he’s innocent, but last year, the musician settled civil lawsuits with two accusers — including Game of Thrones beauty Esmé Bianco, who sued him for sexual assault and human trafficking.…

KANYE WEST is tangled in music mogul pal Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex creep scandal by a beautiful staffer who claims Kim Kardashian’s ex-hubby drugged and sexually assaulted her at a party hosted by the two hip-hop kings. Busty influencer and OnlyFans model Lauren Pisciotta charges that years before she worked for him, West drugged her helpless and attacked her after inviting her and a music client to a party he and Diddy co-hosted at a Santa Monica studio. The 36-year-old bombshell, who’s already suing West for sexual harassment and wrongful firing when she was his personal assistant from 2021 through 2022, says she felt something bad happened at the party, but didn’t think West, 47, was involved until later. In her suit, Lauren says she learned about the ugly incident…

FRAZZLED Garth Brooks is stressed to the max as he denies sordid rape claims by a former aide — and sources claim the country king is looking bloated as his blood pressure soars, leaving friends fearing for his life. “He’s totally convinced he’ll get through this mess, but it’s caused him undue stress,” spills an insider. “He’s in legal meetings and the phone is going off 24/7. He’s having to fend off questions from friends and loved ones. “It’s perhaps the most traumatic event of his life. The pressure he’s facing is enough to make him a nervous wreck.” Sources dish the crisis is also playing havoc with his health as he denies the horrific claims. “He may look like he’s coming out swinging and all bluster, but behind the…

DEFENSE lawyers in murder cases often try to get their clients off — not by proving them innocent, but by casting doubt on the charges with an alternative story of how the crime was committed. That’s what legal eagles for the Los Angeles Innocence Project are doing in the case of Scott Peterson, who’s already served 20 years of a double life sentence for murdering his eight-monthspregnant wife Laci, then 27, and their unborn son Connor on Dec. 24, 2002. Scott claimed Laci disappeared after going out to walk their dog while he was 90 miles away in his small boat fishing in San Francisco Bay. Four months later, what was left of Laci and unborn Connor’s decomposed bodies were found in that bay not far from Scott’s fishing hole.…

POSSIBLY the most successful movie in the history of cinema is the 2007 supernatural horror flick Paranormal Activity — because it cost only $15,000 to make and earned nearly $200 million worldwide at the box office! The cheapie movie is about a young couple, played by KATIE FEATHERSTON and MICAH SLOAT, who set up a camera in their home to catch the ghoulish spirits haunting them. It started out with its shoestring budget — it was shot with a home video camera, and the actors initially received only $500 each — at film festivals, but after Paramount picked it up and changed the ending, it hit big and spawned a franchise.…

TOUGH guy Teddy Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to hold a black belt in judo. A WOMAN was held hostage on her Washington state farm by 100 aggressive, hungry raccoons looking for a handout after she stopped feeding the critters after 38 years. The cops chased them away. CONNECTICUT cops charged a driver with hitting 16-year-old bicyclist Liam Shields and riding four miles with the youth trapped on his car’s roof. A POPPING champagne cork can fly at speeds up to 60 mph, but the average is 25 mph. SURPRISE! The 2,340-mile Mississippi River is the second longest river in North America! Only the Missouri River is longer. NINETEEN people — including five men — were hanged after the horrific Salem witch trials, which began in 1692.…

MUSIC wildcat Cardi B got so wasted during her blowout 32nd birthday bash, she vows: “I will never, ever drink again!” Following her epic party in the Big Apple, the I Like It singer posted a video of her in bed covering her naked boobs and looking a disheveled mess, promising: “I will never, ever drink again. I will never. Pray for me. Wait, I’m still drunk.” She also noted a friend who was with her got so sick on the way to afterparties, she threw up. The pal also ratted on the mom of three young kids, saying Cardi had downed “the whole” bottle of Hennessy Cognac. Earlier on Oct. 11, the rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, hosted her “Bardi in the City” bash wearing a…

007 TRIES GAY SEX James Bond hunk DANIEL CRAIG has made it — onscreen — with some of the world’s sexiest babes including EVA GREEN, SIENNA MILLER and his real-life wife, RACHEL WEISZ, but trashes many of his movie couplings as “terrible.” Now he’s doing a 180-degree change for his new flick Queer, where he plays an older man who has an affair with a younger dude — including oral sex. He calls their on-screen gay sex “as real as it possibly can be.” If he praises gay sex compared to his scenes with gals, won’t his fans — and even Rachel — begin to wonder? RICH DUDE IS CRYBABY Mega-rich sports businessman DAVE PORTNOY is whining because he tried to score free tickets for TAYLOR SWIFT’s concert in Miami…

GARCELLE BEAUVAIS Let’s get real — the RHOBH regular is far too curvy for this angular satin sheath JULIA GARNER The Ozark screen crook steals the spotlight in a sheer blouse and sassy hot pants! KIRSTEN DUNST The Bring It On star gives little to cheer about in a dull dress with a dowdy hemline VIVICA A. FOX Très bleak! The Booty Call babe doesn’t score in a maxi with a lousy trompe l’oeil print GLENN CLOSE The Fatal Attraction femme fatale kills her chances of being best dressed in a caftan…

Country star stops performance to help wife have baby – then resumes his concert BUSY Brantley Gilbert proved he’s the king of multitasking as the country singer paused a Mississippi show to help his wife deliver their baby on a tour bus — then came back to continue the concert! The hitmaker, 39, was rocking the house in Tupelo last month when he was told Amber Cochran Gilbert, his spouse of nine years, was about to give birth to their third child. The Bottoms Up singer hightailed it to the nursery on wheels in time for the arrival of their son Abram! He then returned to the stage to tell the roaring crowd, “We got a baby!” as fans cheered and his bandmates hugged him. The Georgia native has been…

LUCKY was born with everything you’d want in a bulldog puppy — wet nose, floppy ears, wrinkly face and pushed-in nose. The one thing she DIDN’T have was a butt — but after life-saving surgery, the brave bowser has made a miracle recovery! The five-month-old pup’s owners were rear-ended by the news their beloved pooch was having trouble pooping because she lacked a posterior — and they swore they’d get to the bottom of the problem. A local vet referred the anxious owners to specialists in Staffordshire, England, near where they live, and that was when they learned Lucky was born with a rare congenital defect that left the poor dog without a derriere. “It was a severe case of a condition we call an Atresia ani type 3 and…

SERIAL senior squeeze Noor Alfallah’s 84-year-old baby daddy, Al Pacino, isn’t laughing about her latest conquest, funnyman Bill Maher! Sources tell GLOBE the Real Time with Bill Maher host, 68, and the Kuwaiti-American man-eater, 30, have been spending quite a bit of time together. But pals are warning the comedian his relationship with Noor will end in tears — not to mention they think he’s doing Al dirty, a mole blabs! Their secret romance was discovered when they were spotted leaving L.A.’s Chateau Marmont hotel after midnight on Oct. 5. “Bill’s track record for womanizing speaks for itself,” spills an insider. “But a lot of folks in his world are convinced Noor’s in the process of luring him into her web then spitting him out like she’s done with Al…

MOPEY Duchess Meghan had a pity party of one as she met with a group of children in California and whined about being one of the most bullied people in the world, sources spill. Millionaire Meghan, 43, made the remark while visiting Girls Inc. in Santa Barbara as part of the nonprofit’s wellness program Social Media U, which is partially funded by the Archewell Foundation that she runs with her husband, Prince Harry. A spywitness says during the kids’ empowerment session, Harry’s harried honey harped about growing up in the digital age and being picked on by internet trolls. But it wasn’t the first time the former Suits stunner barked about online critics. In March, the perturbed palace defector complained to revelers at Austin’s South by Southwest festival about enduring…

MAN-EATER MARTHA STEWART was really cooking sexually early in her only marriage — letting someone other than her hubby, ANDREW, stir her pot. The former model turned business whiz dropped the bombshell confession she’d cheated during her 29-year marriage, admitting: “Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.” Still, she doesn’t think what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Her advice to today’s gals is: “If you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of s**t. Get out of that marriage!” Martha, now 83, and Andrew, 85, had a daughter, ALEXIS, 59, before separating after 25 years in 1987 and divorcing in 1990. Three years later, Andrew married ROBYN FAIRCLOUGH, who was 21 years younger than him, and had been…

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. OPENING NIGHT Mystery words clue: First public appearance REFERENCE GRID 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. AMYGDALA ARACHNOID AXON BLOOD BRAINSTEM CARBOHYDRATES CEREBELLUM CEREBRUM CIRCLE OF WILLIS CRANIAL NERVES DURA MATER GRAY MATTER HIPPOCAMPUS HYPOTHALAMUS LOBES MEDULLA MEMORY MENINGES MIDBRAIN MOTOR SKILLS MYELIN NEURON PIA MATTER PINEAL GLAND PITUITARY GLAND PONS PROTEIN SALTS SOMA SPINAL…

DRIVEN Jordana Brewster, 44, zoomed to international fame as Mia Toretto in the Fast & Furious film franchise. But this month, she’s teamed up with Felicity alum Scott Speedman in the thriller Cellar Door as they portray a couple who is gifted a dream home that becomes a nightmare. Here are ten things you don’t know about the former soap starlet. 1 She was born in Panama to a Brazilian model mother and American investment banker father. 2 Jordana is a descendant of Mayflower passengers William Brewster and Edward Doty. 3 She’s fluent in Portuguese after spending four years of her childhood living in Rio de Janeiro. 4 As a teenager, she made her acting debut on the daytime drama All My Children — and later appeared in 104 episodes…

RILED R&B queen Beyoncé is ready to ditch hubby Jay-Z over fears the music mogul’s friendship with accused sex fiend Sean “Diddy” Combs will ruin her reputation — setting the stage for a blockbuster $2.6 billion divorce, sources squeal. Meanwhile, Jay-Z is said to be bristling behind the scenes over wild accusations linking him to Combs’ alleged misdeeds — and confidants whisper he’s publicly putting on a united front with Beyoncé as they scramble to protect their careers! The power couple’s lawyers recently issued a scathing letter to newsman Piers Morgan, forcing him to apologize after a guest on his self-named You-Tube show put forth unsubstantiated claims Beyoncé and her honey had “hundreds of victims” themselves! Jay-Z, 54, rose through the ranks of New York City’s 1990s rap scene alongside…

AN IDIOT influencer who urged millions of viewers to stick a roach killer in their vagina to stay “fresh” has health experts horror-struck. TikToker Allison Hoeller recommended sticking boric acid tablets into female genitals to rid them of any “odor or taste,” promising it’ll make down there “literally taste and smell like water.” While boric acid is sometimes used to treat yeast infections, lady parts are naturally self-cleaning, and the tablets actually increase the risk of STIs, experts claim.…