Me Tarzan. You Lane.

SPOTLIGHT

there were Tracy and Hepbum, Liz and Dick, Woody and Diane, Warren and Diane, Warren and Madonna, Warren and Annette— performers who juggled demanding twin careers as lovers and co-stars and left myth in their wake. To this distinguished (though at times combustible) gallery shall we now add the husband-and-wife team of Christopher Lambert and Diane Lane? Well, from the look of things, they seem to genuinely like each other—that's a good sign. They seem to like the camera too—an even better sign. Our photographer suggested a simple kiss; the shy couple took it from there. Call it chemistry. Slurp!

Her you may remember as the delicately drawn Lolitanext-door who broke into features at the age of 13 with 1979's A Little Romance (opposite Olivier, no less), went on to make the cover of Time at 14, and is one of the few things worth remembering from Francis Coppola's midcareer slough (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club). Lambert—whose Belmondo-y looks can suggest a kind of supersaturated Mediterranean-ness, a Frenchman tapenade—first came to the attention of American audiences as the neurotic, revisionist Tarzan in 1984's Greystoke. More recently, wielding a mean broadsword and a sense of camp fun, he has struck cult-hit gold in the exhilaratingly ludicrous Highlander films. One other thing: if producers are interested, he can play a fine human Fudgside.

The jury is still out on the couple's first film together, the forthcoming Knight Moves, a psychological thriller about a serial killer that threatens to do for chess what Silence of the Lambs did for dressmaking. We'll have two more glimpses of Lane before New Year's. Next month she reveals an unexpected droll side in the deadpan comedy My New Gun. And then, on Christmas Day, she'll shoot for the stars in Richard Attenborough's long-awaited Charlie, playing Paulette Goddard to Robert Downey Jr.'s Charlie Chaplin—the Warren and Annette of the silent era. But even bigger! Hooray for family values, Hollywood-style!

BRUCE HANDY