NEWS MAKERS

May 19, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

NEWS MAKERS

Travolta’s dogs were leashed in accident

BANGOR, Maine

A spokesman for John Travolta says the actor’s two dogs were leashed when they were run over and killed at Maine’s Bangor International Airport. Paul Bloch said Tuesday that the dogs were being walked from the tarmac to a grassy area when the accident happened last Thursday. The city says a service vehicle struck and killed the dogs after the airplane carrying members of Travolta’s family landed.

The “Saturday Night Fever” and “Pulp Fiction” actor is an accomplished pilot who often flies to Bangor while en route to his home on Islesboro, off the Maine coast.

Guns N’ Roses multimedia release

NEW YORK

The latest Guns N’ Roses project is not an album, a video or a book: It’s all three. The band has completed a multimedia edition of the biography “Reckless Road,” in which author Marc Canter tells of the making of Guns N’ Roses’ multimillion-selling debut “Appetite for Destruction.”

The video book goes on sale today and was produced by Vook, an Alameda, Calif.-based digital publisher. Vook says the edition includes text, studio and concert footage and interviews with band members, but not lead singer Axl Rose. It has a suggested price of $4.99 and can be downloaded from Vook’s website, www.vook.com, or from Apple’s iTunes.

Boney James struck by drunken driver

LONG BEACH, Calif.

Publicists for Boney James say the Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist has canceled a show after being struck by a suspected drunken driver in Long Beach. They say James was driving home from a jazz festival in Newport Beach on Saturday when his car was rear-ended while he was stopped in traffic on Interstate 405. He suffered a fractured jaw, two broken teeth and a gash on his chin that needed 14 stitches.

Passers-by pulled him from the car. He has been released from the hospital but canceled a Friday show in Columbia, S.C.

James is married to Lily Mariye, who played nurse Lily Jarvik on TV’s “ER.”

No iPad for Lil Jon

NEW YORK

Lil Jon says he’s not interested in keeping up with the trends in technology — and that includes the iPad. In a recent interview, the rapper and producer said: “I already have a big ... computer.” He called the iPad “just the latest toy.”

The 39-year-old is old school when it comes to his tech devices — he still carries the once-hot Sidekick, which he says “types really fast.” He declared: “I ain’t going to buy no iPhone.” He also said the buttons on the BlackBerry are too small — and he has big thumbs. Jon’s upcoming CD, “Crunk Rock,” is slated for release June 8.

‘Geezer’ reminisces

NEW YORK

Black Sabbath bassist Terry “Geezer” Butler is reminiscing about his last moments with friend and bandmate Ronnie James Dio.

Butler issued a statement Tuesday recounting his final days with the singer, who died May 16 of stomach cancer at age 67. The two performed together in Heaven and Hell, the latest incarnation of Black Sabbath.

Butler said he shared his last laugh and received his final e-mail from Dio on May 12.

, then went to visit him May 15 at the hospital along with “25 to 30 friends.”

“We knew the end was imminent,” Butler wrote. “We all wanted to say our goodbyes.”

on June 22.

Momsen describes the music as heavy rock, and says listeners can expect to be “screamed at.”