RE-ELECTED: Former "Little House on the Prairie" star Melissa Gilbert, 39, won a second two-year term as president of the Screen Actors Guild on Tuesday, months after she led a failed effort to merge the union with its smaller rival, AFTRA. She defeated the SAG treasurer, former "Adam 12" star Kent McCord, by 15,670 votes to his 13,242. Her running-mate, "Babe" farmer James Cromwell, 62, was elected secretary-treasurer, defeating board member and McCord ally Esai Morales, a costar on "NYPD Blue."
QUOTED: "I never listen to my records for maybe 10 years. ... Really, I just get sick of it. That's why I gave up concerts -- in addition to having stage fright and the exertion of singing 30 songs a night. It's boring to sing your own songs." -- Barbra Streisand, 61, to Reader's Digest, on why she's given up doing live performances
SUED: Low-cost carrier Jet Blue is the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed in state court in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in federal court in Los Angeles, after the airline disclosed passenger information to a U.S. Defense Department contractor, reports the Bloomberg news service. Jet Blue, which has apologized to its passengers for turning over names, addresses, phone numbers and flight itineraries, could also face a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into whether the public was deceived by the airline's actions.
YANKED: Before its Thursday-night debut this week, NBC's sexually charged new sitcom "Coupling" has been dropped by network affiliates in South Bend., Ind., and Salt Lake City Utah, because its content goes "well beyond the boundaries of our community standards," say both WNDU and KSL, according to the New York Post. NBC is looking for suitable replacements at the two stations, says the paper, which also was told by one of the show's producers, "I would be surprised if too many people will be offended" by the first episode.
