Star Tracks

UPDATED 04/15/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 04/15/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT

Mel Gibson showed plenty of Braveheart (to go along with his movie's five new Oscars) when he bloodied up—don't fret, it's fake—for a scene with N.Y.P.D. blues for Ransom, a thriller he is shooting in New York City.

Pop singer turned star of TV's Moesha, Brandy (above) proved herself a violet femme when she served as a cohost at the Soul Train Music Awards in L.A. Producer Jimmy Jam and wife Lisa (right), who will rock the cradle with a baby boy due July 26, also attended the bash, where the big winners were TLC and D'Angelo with three awards each.

There was a Hole lot of shakin' going on when the band's Eric Erlandson took girlfriend Drew Barrymore and Hole's Courtney Love (right) to see Primal Fear in L.A. Love, usually a blonde, has dyed her locks for her role in The People vs. Larry Flynt, a biopic due this fall.

The X-Files' Gillian Anderson, who portrays skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully on the Fox occult hit, accepted the tribute of this human fluke worm at a party in L.A. to celebrate the release of the new CD Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by The X-Files.

She doesn't do windows, but model and fitness buff Kathy Ireland enthusiastically scaled the see-through climbing wall at the Six Flags-Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, Calif.

Pierce Brosnan reunited with Stephanie Zimbalist, his costar on TV's Remington Steele (1982-87), at the Genesis Awards (given for positive portrayals of animals in film and TV) in L.A.

When ER's Ron Eldard needed an escort for the premiere in L.A. of his new film, a dark comedy called The Last Supper, he asked ER costar Julianna Margulies, who was happy to assist. On ER, Eldard plays a paramedic nursing a romance with Margulies's RN.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian donned Colonial garb at his assisted-suicide trial in Pontiac, Mich. "It's silly to have modern dress when dealing with ancient jurisprudence," said the doctor, unscrolling a copy of an 1813 letter he said was written by Thomas Jefferson in support of euthanasia.

Where's Waldo? No idea, but that is England's Queen Mother, 95 (now recovered from her hip replacement surgery last November), plunking herself down for a St. Patrick's Day photo op with the Irish Guards at Chelsea Barracks in London. The Queen Mum had presented the battalion with bunches of shamrock.

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