Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is now the star of his own iPhone game. One of the top flight simulator programs -- X-Plane -- has released a game where you take on the role of the lauded pilot of the US Airways Flight 1549 that steered the plane into the Hudson River on Jan. 15 after its engines were damaged by birds. The game features the actual audio communication between air traffic control and the flight.

Players start out on Runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport, in similar weather conditions to the real event. They take off and to follow the original flight path, they have to fly through rectangular hoops throughout the course.

In the real story, all passengers and crew survived. Players will need a lot of practice to get the same results.

Kiefer Sutherland will be back to play Jack Bauer for an eighth season of the hit counterterrorism drama "24," but the show's longevity will depend on its writers, the actor said yesterday.

The 42-year-old told The Associated Press that "24," currently in its seventh season, will start shooting its eighth in May. He spoke during an interview in Hong Kong to promote the new 3-D animated movie "Monsters vs. Aliens," in which he voices the character of General W.R. Monger.

Sutherland, whose gritty portrayal of the counterterrorism agent has made Bauer an iconic character, said he's committed to the show that's revived his career.

"If I was going to liken '24' to a girlfriend, '24' has been really good to me. And I need to be really good back," Sutherland said.

"There are plays I want to do. There are so many different things I would like to do, but I was so fortunate to be part of something like '24' that my focus is still on that right now," he said.

Sutherland said the show's future also hinges on its writers' ability to shape its story.

"The real pressure is placed on the writers. It's a real question about how much they feel they can give and what they can do," he said.

Sutherland, whose movie credits include "Young Guns" and "A Few Good Men," said he hasn't thought much about his career after "24" and isn't worried about being typecast as a Bauer-like government agent.

"I will do the work I want to do and people can accept it or not," he said.

Working as a voice actor on "Monsters vs. Aliens" was a "fantastic counterbalance" to playing Bauer, he said.

"The relief was unbelievable. For five days a week, 14 hours a day, I'm doing Jack Bauer on '24' and then for five hours on the weekend, I got to kind of proverbially let my hair down and play this character and talk like that and be a kid. I felt like a five-year-old," said Sutherland, simulating the deep, raspy voice of his character.

"Monsters vs. Aliens," which is about a jailed group of monsters who are freed to help battle an alien robot, opens in U.S. theaters on Friday.

For your daily Octomom update: Nadya Suleman, the southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January, has fired Angels in Waiting, a nonprofit group of nurses charged with helping care for the octoplets she had in January as well as her other six children.

"It was a poor fit from the start," Jeff Czech, Suleman's attorney and spokesman, told People.com. Suleman, who lives in Southern California, could never quite shake the fact that attorney Gloria Allred, who was responsible for pairing the nursing service with Suleman, initially filed a complaint with Child Protective Services. Allred later threatened that, without proper nursing care, Suleman's children might be doled out to foster homes.

"Suleman felt uncomfortable by some of the things that Gloria Allred said, starting with her complaint to CPS." The group was working for free. Suleman instead will rely on nurses whom she is paying, Suleman's attorney said.

She now has four of the octuplets at home, along with her six other children. The other octuplets remain in a hospital, which is discharging them two at a time to ease the adjustment.

Matt Lauer is recovering from surgery to repair the shoulder he separated when he fell off his bike while avoiding a deer that jumped in his path.

"Today" show news anchor Ann Curry says the operation went "very well," but Lauer is probably in "a lot of pain."

Lauer's fill-in, Lester Holt, said on yesterday's Tuesday's show that Lauer hopes to be back later this week.

Holt held up a headline in the New York Daily News that read: "Matt Goes Splat."

Lauer was riding his bike on Long Island last weekend when a deer jumped in his path. The 51-year-old "Today" show host flew over the handlebars. NBC says Lauer was wearing a helmet.

Producer-director Brett Ratner is adding publisher to his list of credits.

The Hollywood hyphenate intends to release three books today Wednesday through his publishing company, Rat Press. The softcover books -- on Marlon Brando, Robert Evans and Jim Brown -- are the first in a series of planned releases of out-of-print books about filmmakers and filmmaking.

"These are books that I wanted to put out there in the consciousness of film culture and pop culture because they're books that shaped my film education," said Ratner, 40. "Hopefully it will inspire other generations of young people."

The first volumes are "Conversations with Marlon Brando" and "Conversations with Robert Evans," both by Lawrence Grobel, and "Jim: The Author's Self-Centered Memoir on the Great Jim Brown" by James Toback. The softcover books sell for $20 to $25.

"If I didn't do this, I would take these books and photocopy them and give them to all my friends," Ratner said.

Ratner, whose film credits include "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "Rush Hour 3" and who executive produces TV's "Prison Break," said he always wanted to be in the book business -- "not for profit, it's really about a personal passion of mine."