Sideshow: Doctor sees recovery for DJ and drummer
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM are expected to fully recover from burns they suffered in a South Carolina jet crash that killed four other people aboard, their doctor said yesterday.
Former Blink-182 drummer
Travis Barker
and celebrity disc jockey
DJ AM
are expected to fully recover from burns they suffered in a South Carolina jet crash that killed four other people aboard, their doctor said yesterday.
Fred Mullins, a doctor at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center, said the two suffered second- and third-degree burns but had no other injuries. "Anybody who can survive a plane crash is pretty lucky," Mullins said at a news conference yesterday.
Barker was burned on his torso and lower body and DJ AM, Philadelphia's
Adam Goldstein
, was burned on an arm and his scalp, according to a statement from the musicians' families. Mullins declined to discuss specific recovery times, but said such injuries can take a year to fully heal.
Both men are still in critical but stable condition, he said.
The Learjet crashed late Friday shortly after taking off from an airport in Columbia, where the men had just performed a concert for thousands of college students. The plane's two-person crew and a pair of the musicians' staff members - also their close friends - were killed.
A federal official said yesterday that a cockpit voice recording indicates the crew tried to abort the takeoff after a possible tire blowout.
- Associated Press
The Hornet returns
Hong Kong comedian
Stephen Chow
will take on a role made famous by the late action star
Bruce Lee
when he stars as Kato in Columbia Pictures' adaptation of
The Green Hornet
.
Canadian actor
Seth Rogen
will star as the Hornet, a debonair newspaper publisher who moonlights as a masked crime-fighter along with his sidekick, Kato, a martial-arts expert.
The characters debuted in a radio series in 1936 on WXYZ Detroit. They also starred in comic books.
- AP
'Lakeview' tops box office
Lakeview Terrace
won the top spot at the box office over the weekend with $15.6 million in sales, according to studio estimates yesterday.
Samuel L. Jackson's
tale about a police officer who terrorizes his neighbors led other new releases that did moderate business during the typical post-summer malaise.
Debuting at No. 3 with $8.3 million was the romantic comedy
My Best Friend's Girl
, starring
Kate Hudson
as a woman who comes between best buddies played by
Dane Cook
and
Jason Biggs
.
- AP