Happy to be alive

Happy to be alive

NEW YORK — Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who always has been afraid of flying, says he’s glad to be alive after suffering severe burns in a fiery plane crash last month.

“I hate planes,” Barker said in an interview with Us Weekly magazine. “My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened ... well, I’m just thankful to be alive! I’m just grateful to be here at all.”

The 32-year-old musician and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM were the only survivors of the crash just before midnight Sept. 19 at the main airport in Columbia, S.C.

Movie-watching record

NEW YORK — Suresh Joachim of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plastic-glass house in New York’s Times Square.

A Guinness World Records spokesman said it appears the nondynamic duo have broken the record but said it will take two weeks to officially verify.

The attempt began Oct. 2 and ended at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday.

Today’s birthdays

Singer Jackson Browne is 60. Manager-TV personality Sharon Osbourne (“The Osbournes”) is 56. Actor Tony Shalhoub (“Monk,” “Wings”) is 55. Actor John O’Hurley (“Dancing With The Stars,” “Seinfeld”) is 54. Singer P.J. Harvey is 39. Singer Sean Lennon is 33. Actor Tyler James Williams (“Everybody Hates Chris”) is 16.