• November 25, 1996
• Vol. 46
• No. 22

Star Tracks

Family ties are still binding for Michael J. Fox, who courted wife Tracy Pollan at a Knicks-Lakers game in Manhattan. Fox has asked writers on the hit sitcom Spin City to lower the libido of his character, a deputy mayor. Maybe he needs more time to hand-hold Hizzoner?

Antonio Banderas (right) kept his fencing mended at his home in Marbella, Spain. He was rehearsing with a coach for his role as the legendary masked hero in The Mask of Zorro, an action flick to begin filming next January in Mexico.

Proving she can still sock it to 'em, Goldie Hawn (in a Vera Wang gown) wowed the crowd at the London premiere of The First Wives Club, her blockbuster revenge comedy (with Bette Midler and Diane Keaton). Asked how she retains her girlish glow at 50, Hawn told the Mail on Sunday, "Great sex. And lots of it." Absent from the screening: royal first wives Diana and Fergie.

Caroline in the City costars Lea Thompson (left) and Amy Pietz tried a squeeze play before beginning a 5-kilometer walk in L.A. that benefited Caring for Babies with AIDS.

Keanu Reeves sought counsel in his script on a break from filming Devil's Advocate, a courtroom thriller, in Manhattan. He plays a lawyer whose boss has a demonic streak.

Martin star Tisha Campbell (left) appeared fit to a T at the Los Angeles premiere of Set It Off, the new flick about four women who go on a bank-robbing spree. Also at the Off-ing: Rapper Queen Latifah (right), who plays one of the heisters in the movie, ruled the wave, while the newest member of the clean-pate club, Will Smith (below right), sparred with Sin-bad. Smith was there to cheer on his girlfriend Jada Pinkett, one of Set It Off's stars. And Arsenio Hall (below, left) got busy giving Off's Vivica Fox a peace of his mind. The two are signed to costar in an as-yet-untitled comedy series for ABC, coming next year, in which Hall will play a recently married sportscaster.

Lauren Bacall, who plays Barbra Streisand's mother in The Mirror Has Two Faces, joined her real son, actor Sam Robards (dad is Jason), and his girlfriend Sidsel at an L.A. screening of The Man Who Captured Eichmann. Robards plays an Israeli agent in the TNT docudrama about the capture of the Nazi war criminal.

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Hole's Courtney Love teamed up at the L.A. opening of The English Patient, the new romantic drama. Nice to know folks are holding hands at the movies again, but these two are just old pals.

Julia Roberts angled for a little free publicity for Blue Fish, a clothing line, while on the Manhattan set of The Conspiracy Theory, a thriller she's shooting with Mel Gibson. She plays an attorney who heeds Mel's paranoid theories.