It Wasn’t Just His Career That Was For The Birds

So, what do you like in your bucket of chicken? Turns out Colonel Sanders liked breasts and thighs.

According to a new book, the founder and symbol of Kentucky Fried Chicken was a pretty randy guy who kept a mistress and even persuaded his wife to hire her to “help with the housework.”

In “The Colonel’s Secret: Eleven Herbs and a Spicy Daughter,” author Margaret Sanders - the “Spicy” offspring of the book’s title - wrote that the affair was hardly a secret.

“The peace of our whole family was altered by their affair,” the book says. “Mother refused to accept that she alone could not satisfy Father’s physical needs, which from the very beginning of their marriage had seemed excessive to her.”

Loose talk

A fellow cricket player on watching Mick Jagger bat during a recent match (as reported by the Associated Press): “It was brilliant to see him - when he was running on the pitch he was strutting around, exactly the same way as he does on stage.”

Uh oh, looks like life’s gonna catch up with him

Meat Loaf turns 49 today.

As a studly hunk, little Joey is starting to blossom

Joey Lawrence, a cute little guy in the sitcom “Blossom,” is growing up. The 5-feet-10, 163-pound actor works out in the gym and swims after work. “I’ve put on about 15 pounds in the last three years of solid muscle. The abdominal muscles are actually showing. They’re really starting to come in great so I don’t want that to go,” Lawrence said.

Listen up and you can hear his inner child screech with glee

Success is sublime for Anthony Hopkins. “I think success has been very important to me,” the Oscar-winner told Vanity Fair magazine. “I wanted it to heal some inner wound of some kind. I wanted revenge. I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy and I’ve done it. It’s a pretty infantile way to go through life: ‘I’ll show them!’ but I’ve done it, and I’ve got more than I ever dreamed of.”

What will Daniel Stern do now for a living?

Macaulay Culkin may be home alone, but he’s no longer “Home Alone.” At 16, the ex-child-star has been deemed too old to continue in the money-making movie series. Instead, 20th Century Fox is looking for a new star - and, coincidentally, a whole new supporting cast.

She’s the most watched watchable and liked bimbo on TV

“The ‘Baywatch’ cast has emerged as the world’s most recognized recognizable and liked television ensemble,” says the syndicated show’s executive producer Gregory Bonann. His remark accompanied the announcement of a C.J. Parker Contest, a nationwide search for people who most resemble the “Baywatch” character played by Pamela Lee.

Instead of another tattoo, she wants a new scar

This just in from New York Post columnist Cindy Adams: Madonna, she writes, has chosen to have a C-section procedure. The scheduled date is Oct. 8. The venue is Los Angeles.

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