• Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was among passengers on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles that was held on arrival at the Nashville International Airport for about an hour due to a sick traveler. "Kudos to @AmericanAir pilot and crew-handled medical issue on red eye from LAX to Nashville very professionally. We were held for a while as medical personnel made sure the person wasn't Gwyneth Paltrow from Contagion. Seriously, hope the lady is okay--taken on gurney," Huckabee, a Fox News commentator and former Republican presidential candidate, tweeted early Thursday morning. Airport spokesman Shannon Sumrall said the passenger had been cleared to fly by a doctor, but didn't have paperwork. Sumrall said passengers were held until officials were able to confirm the passenger had medical clearance to fly. Upon landing, the plane was towed to another gate and quarantined until everything could get checked out. The airport says all passengers were later released to continue their travels.
• Nearly five years after actor Paul Walker's death, his brothers say they're open to playing his character again in the Fast and Furious franchise. Producers asked Caleb and Cody Walker to fill in for their brother and help complete Furious 7 after he died in a car crash in November 2013. Paul Walker's face was digitally superimposed onto his brothers' performances for scenes that Walker had not yet shot and in a modified ending in which his character Brian O'Conner drives off into the sunset. The character remains alive in the fictional Fast universe and is mentioned twice in 2017's The Fate of the Furious. Caleb and Cody Walker are promoting I Am Paul Walker, a new one-hour documentary about the actor's childhood, family and career directed by Adrian Buitenhuis. It premiered last weekend on the Paramount Network. "I just hope we get to -- I don't know -- have a little cameo and bring Paul back to save the day and I get to help create that again," Caleb Walker, 40, said in an interview. "That's my dream and I hope we get to do that in one of the future movies." His brother Cody called his late brother "the real deal, the real car guy," saying "I think there could potentially be a way to do it. But it would take a lot of thought and it'd have to be tasteful. It would have to be tasteful." He said without his brother, the franchise has "lost its way in a big way." Walker was 40 years old when the Porsche Carrera GT he was riding in spun out of control, struck three trees and burst into flames on a street in Santa Clarita, Calif. The next scheduled film in the Fast franchise is a spin-off featuring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. It's set for release next year.
A Section on 08/17/2018