You Know It's Hard Up There in a Plane
Now that the burnt rubber smoke has dissipated and the runway rubble has been squared away, we are getting a clearer picture of just how star-studded the semi-doomed JetBlue Flight 292 actually was:
Hustle & Flow star Taryn Manning was among the 145 passengers and crew on the plane en route from Burbank's Bob Hope Airport to New York's JFK Wednesday that was forced to make an emergency landing due to defective landing gear. [...] Manning was not the only Hollywood type on board. Actress Joanna Going (Into the West, Inventing the Abbotts), who is the wife of Nip/Tuck star Dylan Walsh, and their young daughter, Stella, were also en route to Manhattan, as was One Life to Live actor Tuc Watkins. He plans to recount his harrowing experience on The View Friday.
Earlier reports claimed Manning's Hustle costar DJ Qualls and Nip/Tuck's Kelly Carlson (Kimber) were also passengers on the hobbled jet, but both Qualls' publicist and reps for Carlson told E! Thursday their clients were not on board. Qualls, however, was at the airport, where he met Manning.
If my celebrity math is correct, you take the loss of Qualls plus the addition of Watkins, minus the foxy guest star of a hit series plus the lesser-known actress wife of that series' actual star, and feed that number into a complex Q-rating algorithm. The resulting number is...Oh, who the fuck cares, Texas is about to be swallowed alive!
