But His Favorite Food Is Still Dunkin’ Donuts
At 7 feet 1, 300 pounds, Shaquille O’Neal isn’t exactly a growing boy. But the basketball star certainly eats like one - and then some.
According to Men’s Health magazine, breakfast for the Orlando Magic center consists of four plate-sized pancakes, plus three egg sandwiches, each including two eggs, two slices of whole-wheat toast and a slice of low-fat cheese.
Lunch is typically three triple-decker turkey club sandwiches, spaghetti with tomato sauce, chef salad and a 16-ounce fruit drink. The favorite Shaq snack: tuna pita sandwich.
Game day dinner is a homemade Boboli pizza and fruit; on off days, it’s often marinated chicken breast with broccoli and rice, salad and fruit.
Average daily intake: a cool 5,000 calories.
Loose talk
Dolly Parton, on the cover of her sister’s “Stella Parton’s Country Cookin”’ book: “Stella is truly a good cook. Me, I stopped measuring stuff once I filled my two cups.”
On Sunday, however, he felt more like 500
Al Unser Sr. turns 56 today.
Maybe next time he’ll go the whole nine yards
Football great Herschel Walker, a sixth-degree black belt in tai kwon do, plays a martial arts warrior in the action-adventure film “Superfights.” Said a spokesman: “Herschel has a couple of scenes and some dialogue. It’s not his first movie role, but I think it’s his most significant.”
We’d like to see him try something in stripes
Style-conscious O.J. Simpson still buys his suits ($2,000 each) and shirts ($225 a pop) at David Rickey & Co. in Costa Mesa, Calif. “He has good taste,” co-owner Rick Lamitie told New York magazine. “He likes wool crepes and lightweight wools, and he likes the same scalloped shirt collars you see (New York Knicks coach) Pat Riley wearing on TV.”
Next thing, she’ll be parting her hair behind
An anonymous informer told “American Journal” she spotted stylish living maven Martha Stewart shopping in a supermarket, where she “picked up a peach, bit into it and then turned it bite-side down back into the pile and walked away as if this was just an everyday occurrence to her. I was shocked.” Stewart declined comment.
Actually, she’s just about due for a tuneup
Workout whiz Jane Fonda admits that her physique has been surgically enhanced, although she won’t disclose details. As the 57-year-old Fonda said in Fitness magazine: “I have had the basic amount of work done for people in the industry.”
Just so long as he and E.T. aren’t alienated
“Entertainment Tonight” host John Tesh will get more time to make music after all. After going to court last week to block his request for an unpaid leave, Paramount Television agreed to give the composer and keyboard player extra vacation time so he can tour.
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino