People

By Guy D. Garcia

Some people might wonder what Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal were doing out there on a Chicago street, armed and pantless. But Windy City residents can be a blase lot. Says Crystal: "There was a little old lady standing next to Hines, and she says, 'Excuse me, can I get by?' She didn't even notice that we were in our underwear and had guns!" So what did Hines do? Like a good Boy Scout, he stopped and escorted her across the street. Maybe she just assumed they were making a movie--which, of course, they were, playing a couple of wild and crazy undercover cops in Running Scared. Hines, 39, fresh from good reviews in White Nights with Co-Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, has no fancy footwork to fall back on this time out. "I feel most confident dancing," he admits, "though I've grown more comfortable acting in the past few years." Crystal, 38, is also in unfamiliar territory; this is his first movie after moving on from Saturday Night Live. Says he: "I keep asking Gregory if I'm funnier than Baryshnikov."