– Officials now say that it was wear and tear, and not a collision with a bird, that damaged the windshield of Oprah Winfrey’s private jet and forced it to return to the airport. “There was no bird involved, but the pilot did tell my captain that he felt it was a fatigue thing with the glass,” a Santa Barbara Fire Department spokesman said Tuesday.
– Cast off by “America’s Next Top Model,” Janice Dickinson will get her own reality modeling show on the Oxygen network. Dickinson, who claims she was the first supermodel, was ousted from the UPN show in May. She’ll winnow 500 aspiring models down to five as she starts her own Hollywood modeling agency on the tentatively titled “Janice Dickinson Project.” Oxygen has ordered 10 episodes, which are expected to begin airing in the spring.
– Sylvester Stallone can keep his magazine, “Sly,” on newsstands despite the complaints of an Internet magazine with the same name, a judge ruled Tuesday. Despite the victory, it was unclear how long Stallone’s magazine would last. The current issue was the last of four scheduled to be published before the magazine’s future was to be determined.
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The Personals page was compiled by Cheryl Bowles from Tribune news services and staff reports.
