Life turns in the blink of an eye

Despite several surgeries for burns over his torso and lower body, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is trying to stay positive after a plane crash that killed four people, including two close friends.

“If you make it out of a crash of that magnitude, somebody’s looking out for you,” said Bill Nosal, Barker’s friend and spokesman for Famous Stars and Straps, a Los Angeles-based clothing and accessory line created by the musician.

“He’s trying to stay upbeat,” Nosal added.

Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, survived the Friday night Learjet crash at the Columbia, S.C., airport with second- and third-degree burns. One of their doctors at a Georgia burn hospital said he expects them to fully recover.

The pilot and co-pilot died of smoke inhalation and burns, while Barker’s security guard and assistant died on impact.

Barker, 32, was one of the more colorful members of the multiplatinum-selling Blink-182. After the group disbanded in 2005, he formed the rock band (+44), pronounced “plus forty-four.”

Sex and the kiddies

“Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell is writing a pair of teen novels, “The Carrie Diaries,” that “takes readers back to (main ‘Sex’ character) Carrie Bradshaw’s formative years in high school, giving an inside look at Carrie’s friendships, romances and how she realized her dream of becoming a writer.”

Meanwhile, Lauren Conrad, the 22-year-old star of MTV’s “The Hills,” is penning a three-book young adult fiction series, “L.A. Candy,” loosely inspired by her transformation into a reality TV star and fashion designer.

Mud on whose face?

Alec Baldwin, whose phone message calling his 11-year-old daughter a “rude, thoughtless little pig” leaked online last year, is hawking his book about the family court system.

Baldwin, who’s waged a bitter custody battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger, offers advice to other parents in “A Promise To Ourselves.”

“I’m disappointed, I’m ashamed to say this: You get angry,” Baldwin said of the phone message at a San Francisco appearance. “I wanted to see my daughter.”

Money where the mouths are

Paul McCartney’s ex-wife, animal rights activist Heather Mills, is donating $1 million in soy hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken cutlets to one of the Bronx’s poorest neighborhoods.

And director/playwright/actor Tyler Perry is providing enough food to feed 1,000 needy families for two weeks in Atlanta.

A little help for them?

Some female cast members of the new “Beverly Hills 90210” spinoff, “90210,” are under scrutiny for being too skinny.

Jessica Stroup is 5-foot-8 and an estimated 100 to 105 pounds, while Shenae Grimes weighs in at 5-3, 90 pounds.

“I hope they eat a double cheeseburger or something,” says “Gossip Girl’s” Penn Badgley.

The birthday bunch

Actress Sheila MacRae is 84. Actor Gordon Clapp (“NYPD Blue”) is 60. Actor Kevin Sorbo is 50. Actress-writer Nia Vardalos (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) is 46. Actor Kyle Sullivan (“Malcolm in the Middle”) is 20.