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.
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? Cindy Pearlman


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