FLASHES

TOUCHY-FEELY: When Angela Bassett pumped up to play Tina Turner in 1993's What's Love Got to Do With It, her bod got almost as much press as her performance. Now, Bassett's extreme definition is on display again in October's Strange Days, and the actress is finding that fans are again calling her buff. ''People just touch you,'' says Bassett, who will also costar with Whitney Houston in December's Waiting to Exhale. ''They don't know how weird that is, to be touched by strangers.'' Her remedy? ''I've toyed with the idea of just touching them right back,'' she says. ''You know, whatever part of their body that jumps into my head!''

-- Robert Abele

RUN, RUN, RUNAWAY: Like the Energizer bunny, Dr. Richard Kimble just keeps on going. The Fugitive producer, Arnold Kopelson, hopes to bring back the innocent man on the lam in not one, but two sequels. ''If I'm going to do a sequel to The Fugitive, I want Harrison [Ford] to be in it,'' says Kopelson. ''To get Harrison, I need a really great script.'' In the meantime, Kopelson is developing U.S. Marshals, which will feature Samuel Gerard, the character played by Tommy Lee Jones. ''I've taken Tommy Lee and the four marshals, and we're putting in a new fugitive,'' says Kopelson. And who will be the running man? No casting choices have been made, but, says Joe Pantoliano, who played Marshal Cosmo Renfro in the first film, ''It will be me and Tommy Lee chasing after some other $12 million actor.'' Well, that rules out Jim Carrey.

-- Cindy Pearlman

MARRIED...WITH CAREERS: When it comes to work, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman don't see eye to eye. Cruise loves having Nic and the kids on the set, which is why the couple was together in London while he filmed the upcoming Mission: Impossible. Kidman, however, doesn't want to see him when she's in character, and officially banned him from the set of the just-released black comedy To Die For. ''It's a distraction,'' she explains. ''It can make you self-conscious.'' Besides, given Kidman's method, she can't be very good company. To play a TV-celeb wannabe in the Gus Van Sant movie, she says, ''I checked into a hotel and watched television around the clock. It was hypnotic. I got so involved I was yelling at the soaps: 'Bo, don't leave Mary! You're a jerk!''' Is it any wonder Tom stayed away?