Table of contents for Sep-21-15 in Globe

FORMER Hollywood king Burt Reynolds has wasted away to a skeletal 98 pounds and has only weeks to live, stunned sources reveal. “It’s so sad to see what’s happened to him,” says a source close to the star. “Burt’s reeled from one health crisis after the other. “We fear he has only weeks to live – and he simply doesn’t care anymore.” The 79-year-old Smokey and the Bandit star was once a strapping 5-foot-11, 175-pound running back at Florida State and a global sex symbol. He made history after posing nude in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972 and was once one of Tinseltown’s highest paid actors. But now, battles with heart disease and pain pill addiction combined with shattering financial setbacks have left him a lonely recluse at his Hobe Sound,…

ARMY brass triggered a firestorm by booting decorated Green Beret Charles Martland after he roughed up a perverted Afghan cop who raped a 12-year-old boy then beat the kid’s mom when she confronted him! Now, the Bronze Star winner is battling to get back his job, while Pentagon brass decline to comment on their outrageous action against the heroic sergeant, who was slapped with an involuntary discharge. Stand for what’s right But Martland should be applauded for his actions, not punished says Congressman Duncan Hunter (RCalif.) who insists the soldier “was left with no other choice but to intervene” and the “Army should stand up for what’s right and not side with a corrupt Afghan police officer.” The drama unfolded when the 12-year-old and his mom showed up at the…

HANDSOME Michael Douglas has built an acting career to rival that of his famous father, 98-year-old Kirk Douglas. But it wasn’t always smooth sailing. Kirk opposed Michael entering showbiz, and the two-time Oscarwinner admits he used to struggle with crippling stage fright. Now 70, Michael is still breaking new ground. His new blockbuster, Ant-Man, is his first-ever specialeffects flick. Here are 10 things you may not know about the star: 1. Michael’s maternal grandfather, Lt. Col. Thomas Melville Dill, was the former Attorney General of Bermuda, where Douglas is building a family-style hotel. 2. The cancer survivor is exactly 25 years older than his second wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. The two share a birthday, Sept. 25. 3. His stage fright was so bad in his early career he kept a bucket…

FOUR twisted students butchered a classmate with a machete in the woods and buried him alive as he gasped for air, horrified cops charge. Then, two of the coldblooded creeps celebrated the savage murder of 17-year-old Jose Amaya Guardado by having sex at the scene, authorities add. Ironically, the victim’s shattered mother, Lucia Guardado, says Jose came to the U.S. nine years ago to escape the violence in their native El Salvador. Bloodthirsty band “I brought my son here because they were killing people,” Lucia said at the family’s home near Miami, Fla. “I never imagined people would do something like that to him here.” The students all attended the Homestead Jobs Corps campus, a federally operated school for kids ages 16 to 24. Cops believe deranged Kaheem Arbelo, 20,…

THE busboy who comforted Robert F. Kennedy after he was gunned down in the kitchen of L.A.’s Ambassador Hotel blames himself for the beloved politician’s death! An iconic photo shows then-17-year-old Juan Romero kneeling by Kennedy, holding his head. But the Mexican immigrant believes Bobby may have dodged the assassin’s bullets if he hadn’t stopped to shake hands with Romero in the wee hours of June 5, 1968. Romero says he “dreaded” the annual anniversary of the tragedy and was eaten alive by guilt for his role in the killing. Just as Romero reached out to grasp the presidential candidate’s hand, shots rang out from the .22-caliber pistol of Palestinian fanatic Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of the murder. haunted by the thought that RFK would have lived – if…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Friend with benefits takes on a new meaning during Monday’s Sagittarius moon, when a pal offers you a vacation home for a getaway. You’ve got cold feet over a marriage proposal – it’s wise to think things over. A meeting at a music venue this weekend can lead to a profitable partnership. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Cash flow slows to a drip – live within your means now or you’ll pay the consequences later! Ask a Capricorn friend for advice on thrifty living and look for free activities to do with your family. And relax, Twin, this is temporary! Step up when someone at work or a neighbor has a family crisis.   LEO July 23 - August 23 Someone you spend…

GUITAR legend Keith Richards blasts that he can’t get no satisfaction with the Rolling Stones – who haven’t done studio work in 10 years – which is why he was so eager to release his solo album, Crosseyed Heart, this month. Calling the Stones “a painful democracy,” the bad boy brands Mick Jagger a stand-offish “snob.” And the frontman is “preoccupied” and “really boring,” says Richards, who claims Mick’s “a control freak. He lost himself a bit in the details.” Spreading the poison around, Richards tears into heavy metal, declaring, “Millions are in love with Metallica and Black Sabbath. I just thought they were great jokes.” As for rap and hip-hop, he says, “What rap did that was impressive – showing there are so many tone-deaf people out there.”…

BREAKING BAD star Bryan Cranston makes the leap from TV’s favorite meth dealer to Commanderin-Chief as he takes on the role of President Lyndon Baines Johnson! And his resemblance to LBJ is almost as chilling as his coldhearted drugcooking character Walter White. “Physically and emotionally, Bryan completely channels LBJ,” gushes Jay Roach, who is directing the four-time Emmy winner in All the Way, the HBO adaptation of a Broadway play about Johnson. Roach was blown away while shooting an early scene featuring Cranston and Lady Bird Johnson, played by Melissa Leo. “We filmed him and Lady Bird in the Oval Office, just after JFK’s assassination,” says Roach. “He’s overwhelmed. In spiritual support, Lady Bird touches his cheek. We melted, like we went back in time and witnessed a private, heartwrenching…

GOOD MOM ADELE Mother-of-the-Year Award goes to songstress ADELE, who’s staying home with hubby SIMON KONECKI and two-year-old son ANGELO, even though concert promoters are throwing tens of millions at her to appear on stage. “This is the tour every promoter wants to bag, but at the moment nobody has had any success,” says an insider. Stand your ground, Adele. UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL While ADELE may be the epitome of a dedicated matriarch, JILL CONNORS is the “Mother from Hell.” The Married to Medicine reality star was in the middle of a big bust-up with soonto-be ex husband DR. JOHN CONNORS when she allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and began stabbing herself while screaming, “He’s cutting me!” And she did it in front of her kids! Jill was arrested…

HOLLYWOOD’s first power couple were torn apart by raging jealousy and cheating – just like today’s stars! Silent movie swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and the original America’s Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, fell hard for each other in 1915. Even though both were married, they indulged in a passionate affair. “I worship you,” Fairbanks wrote his lover. “The rest of the world means nothing to me. I cannot live without you.” After divorcing their spouses, they got hitched in 1920. But the love story would not end happily. His serial cheating prompted Pickford to make him jealous by playing a love scene VERY passionately with My Best Girl co-star Buddy Rogers. Fairbanks, notorious for his jealous rages, duly exploded – then got even by bedding a slew of women, leading to the…

TV’s Dr. Quinn, Jane Seymour, has found the best medicine for a broken heart – falling in love all over again! The 64-year-old English rose, who has confessed it was not her idea to divorce actor/director James Keach three years ago, has been swept off her feet by British producer and director David Green. “We almost worked together 35 years ago and we saw each other socially once in a while over the years,” says the fourtimes-divorced Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman dazzler. “We both realized we were single about a year and a half ago. “We made a mutual move on each other over lunch. It’s nice to date another Brit in America, as we share the same sense of humor and culture and have shared friends. His friend is…

AWARD-winning actress Susan Sarandon is heartbroken after her former toy boy beau tossed her aside for a younger – and richer – cougar! In recent months, the 68-year-old Thelma & Louise star seemed to be rekindling her sputtering five-year romance with Ping-Pong entrepreneur Jonathan Bricklin, 38. But now he’s hot on the tail of Pablo Picasso’s 64-year-old granddaughter, Marina. ‘Pretty hurt’ “Susan is pretty hurt by Jonathan,” says a source. “They had been spending time together again, then he left for Paris to hang with Marina.” Sarandon hooked up with Bricklin following the end of her long relationship with actor Tim Robbins. She invested in Bricklin’s New York table tennisthemed club, SPiN, and everything seemed hunkydory until last March when he signed on for the AOL reality show Connected, which…

Behind the scenes of your favorite shows – by Drew MacKenzie and Alison Rayman STUNNING Callie Thorne has been hired to rescue the second season of NBC’s struggling crime drama The Mysteries of Laura. Detective Laura Diamond, played by Will & Grace’s Debra Messing, uses the derogatory nickname San-TINY for the captain, due to her petite 5-foot-3 frame. Single moms Diamond and Santiani clash constantly and can’t even bear to be in the same room together – but have to put their differences aside to concentrate on their task of tracking down killers. Producers are also bringing in Gabriel Mann – who played dashing dresser Nolan Ross on ABC’s Revenge – for a guest arc. TV FACT America’s Got Talent judge Mel B sits on a thick cushion while filming.…

WORD SQUARE Using the central letter and at least three others, how many words can YOU find? Plurals, proper nouns and hyphenated words are NOT allowed, and there is at least one nine-letter word to discover. ANSWERS 20-Second Challenge: 21 Who Am I: Forest Whitaker Initials: The Prisoner of Zenda; The Maid of Orleans; Nanu, Nanu; The Mysteries of Laura; Black Magic Woman Word Square: INFECTION, cent, cite, cone, cote, fine, foie, neon, nice, nine, none, note, once, tine, tone, cento, conte, feint, nonce, nonet, often, tenon, tonne, finite, incite, infect, intone, noetic, notice, confine, nicotine…

SANDRA BULLOCK’s new love may crash and burn – just like her marriage to cheating ex-hubby Jesse James! Court documents show the Miss Congeniality star’s new squeeze, L.A.-based photographer Bryan Randall, has been accused of being anything BUT congenial! In 2012, Bryan’s neighbor John Stacer filed a temporary restraining order against the former model, claiming the hunk smeared dog poop on his front door and threatened him. In a police report of the incident, Stacer stated, “I know he has guns and a notoriously erratic temper, and I am scared of what he will do next.” However, a judge declined to make the restraining order permanent. And that’s not the only time Bryan’s been in hot water with the law. His rap sheet includes a felony charge for driving with…

BLONDE Lisa Brown has wasted away from a healthy, stunning 140-pound model to an 89-pound bag of bones who has to be fed through a tube due to a rare condition that is starving her to death. Sadly, docs say Brown, 32, and the estimated 400 other patients being treated for Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome (SMAS) around the world, have just a 30 percent chance of surviving. SMAS occurs when the aorta and mesenteric arteries pinch part of the small intestine – cutting off nutrients and starving the body. Surgery is highly difficult and dangerous. In just two years, Brown’s weight has plummeted 56 pounds – ONE THIRD of her body weight, leaving her skeletal, weak and in agony from daily bouts of vomiting. “I was vibrant, social, healthy and…

GLOBE’S Editor-in-Chief Jeff Rodack tells it like it is about celebrities – how they get under his skin with their stupid antics and the nonsense they try to put over on the public. Here is his unique take on newsmakers and fakers from Hollywood to Washington to London. HULK HOGAN has gone from big, mean, tough guy to drama queen. Well, isn’t that convenient! Queen Hogan is even turning on the crocodile tears to gain some sympathy in his desperate attempt to convince you he’s not really a racist but just an average guy. Don’t be fooled by Hunk’a Garbage Hogan. He’s toilet scum. He was caught using multiple racial slurs in a tirade on his infamous sex tape with Heather, the shapely wife of his former good pal, Bubba…

Watermelon busts belly fat. PLUS: Coffee fights womb cancer. PLUS: How to avoid migraine agony THE BATTLE against Alzheimer’s disease has taken two major steps forward, say experts.   A simple saliva test can detect the mind-robbing disease before symptoms even develop – and a new drug slows the rate of mental decline for people suffering with the disease. Researchers at Canada’s University of Alberta looked at the saliva of three groups of people: 35 with normal aging cognition, 25 with mild cognitive impairment and 22 with Alzheimer’s. Using protein analysis technology, they found specific biomarkers in the saliva of those with Alzheimer’s or mild cognitive impairment that differed from the normal group. “Saliva is very easy to collect and transport, which will enhance participation” in testing, says lead researcher…

A BRAND new drug could be just what the doctor ordered for Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson to finally beat hepatitis C, the deadly liver disease that’s plagued the blonde for 16 years. The Striperella actress’ docs have prescribed a new FDA-approved drug regimen that promises to wipe out the virus. She says the treatment has given her a new lease on life. Hepatitis C “was a death sentence” just 16 years ago, says Anderson, 48, who claims she caught the bug from a tattoo needle. “Thanks to the new drug I could be hep C free within a month…it was a real blessing that I was able to get the medicine,” says the Barbed Wire star. “I actually look in the mirror every day and I feel like I’m looking…

DEAN Jones played the goofy, clean-cut good guy in some of the biggest Disney films of the 1960s and ’70s – but his public image was a shocking lie! Despite having all the trappings of fame, the actor – who died Sept. 1 at age 84 – was depressed and suicidal. He turned to alcohol and cheated on his wife to cope with stardom. ‘Confessed’ “It was a fast track life,” Dean confessed before his death from Parkinson’s disease. “I was making $50,000 a week. I had the Ferraris and beautiful women…and my life was empty. Really empty.” Dean, who starred in movies including The Shaggy D.A. and The Love Bug series, hid his self-destructive behavior from the world. The star of TV’s Ensign O’Toole even had Walt Disney hoodwinked.…

LEGENDARY wrestler Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka has been pinned with a murder rap – he’s finally been charged with brutally beating his former mistress to a pulp 32 years ago. A grand jury indicted the 72-year-old ring Hall of Famer for the murder and involuntary manslaughter of Nancy Argentino on May 11, 1983. Top Hollywood private eye Paul Huebl noted that explosive new evidence – and Snuka’s stomach cancer – likely means he will die behind bars. “This proves that even after 32 years, there can still be justice,” says the former Chicago cop. Now, Snuka is trying to beat the rap by claiming he’s mentally incompetent from all the shots to the head he’s taken in the ring over the years. He showed up in court in a wheelchair and…

LOVE can be as blind as justice! Just ask former Florida public defender Rosalie Martinez, who dumped her wealthy attorney husband and four young daughters to marry convicted serial killer Oscar Bolin Jr. The two met when Rosalie visited Bolin in his Death Row cell in 1995. “I felt his isolation, his con-finement, his loneliness,” she recalls. “It affected me because I felt the same way. And it left me breathless.” Strong attraction The attraction was so strong that Rosalie left her family for the fiend. She also lost her job as public defender after prison officials accused her of having sex with Bolin in his cell. In 1996, her husband divorced her, winning full custody of their girls, who ranged in age from 6 to 14 at the time.…

WARNER Bros. superstars BETTE DAVIS and ERROL FLYNN cuddle while playing England’s Queen Elizabeth and her stormy love, the Earl of Essex, in the 1939 drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Ironically, the characters’ love-hate relationship seeped into real life as diva Bette looked down her nose at the notorious swashbuckler, who she said was “beautiful” but knew “absolutely nothing about acting.” Later, Flynn confessed she smacked him around so hard during one scene Bette made him “vomit” twice!…