AP - 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.

AP - Actor Nick Nolte jumped out a window and used a hose to fight a fire that broke out in his Malibu home Tuesday, authorities said.

E! Online - At least Minnie Driver will have more time to spend with her baby boy.

E! Online - Travis Barker may have been released from Georgia's Joseph M. Still Burn Center last month, but his ongoing treatment is far from over.

E! Online - Taylor Hicks is adding to the recent surge of news to come from otherwise forgotten American Idol types, announcing his next album will drop Feb. 10, 2009.

Fashion Wire Daily - The very term intellectual fashion conjures up images of dark, lumpy and staid clothes, which is the exact opposite to what we got at the tour de force Miu Miu collection for spring 2009 Sunday in Paris. This was intellectual fashion of the highest order, yet the result was an exhilarating display of style, graphic punch and aesthetic panache.

Fashion Wire Daily - Leave it to Marc Jacobs to inject the right dose of energy, sexual explicitness and edgy fashion that Paris fashion season desperately needed this season in his spring 2009 collection for Louis Vuitton.

Fashion Wire Daily - The boys from Body of Lies met up on Sunday night in New York to premiere their new action flick, and the three seemed to have been dressed by the same stylist.

E! Online - • Heidi Klum's latest runway project involves some seriously scantily clad catwalkers: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show features the likes of Klum, Alessandra Ambrosia, Selita Ebanks, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller and Miranda Kerr "in this holiday infused lingerie runway show" taking place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and airing Dec. 3. Bells won't be the only thing jingling.

AP - Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, capping a season which saw designers play it safe to coax customers into stores despite the global financial crisis.

Fashion Wire Daily - It's amusing that in a moment when American economic policies are being questioned in the midst of the current financial crisis that France's most illustrious luxury label, Hermes, should dedicate its entire collection to the United States' quirkiest contribution to modern entertainment, the cowboy movie.

Fashion Wire Daily - Clint Eastwood is no fool. He knew that the moment he cast Angelina Jolie as the woman to play the single mother of a kidnapped child in his new fact-based period drama Changeling that she would bring more than just her acting talents to the project. She and partner Brad Pitt are, after all, the most famous celebrity pair on the planet, so where Angelina and Brad go, publicity follows.

AP - Greg Oden announced his delayed arrival to the NBA with a dunk two minutes into the preseason.

AP - Ron Artest scored 12 of his 15 points in the first quarter of his Houston debut and the Rockets beat the Memphis Grizzlies 96-93 in the preseason opener on Tuesday night.

AP - Exactly why the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays tangle so much is hard to tell. Blame it on a high-and-tight pitch here, a hard slide there. Whatever, this much is true: The teams playing in the AL championship series sure get into a lot of scraps. There's no hatred, injured Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling insisted Tuesday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

AP - Ronnie Brewer and Paul Millsap each scored 13 points, Deron Williams had 11 points and eight assists, and the Utah Jazz beat the Los Angeles Lakers 99-90 on Tuesday night in the preseason opener for both teams.

AP - Barry Bonds made a rare public appearance Tuesday and said he is enjoying life away from baseball. I'm happy now that I have more time, Bonds told the crowd at the kickoff event of the Macy's Christmas tree lighting. I've actually enjoyed myself immensely.