Actor Matthew Broderick was fined $175 on Monday for careless driving in a crash that killed a woman and her daughter.

Broderick, 25, star of the films War Games and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving after it was reduced from the charge of causing death by careless driving.

Broderick was in New York when the fine was levied in a court in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. He had been been excused from attending the trial after the charge was reduced. He was originally accused of driving on the wrong side of the road and spent a month in a Belfast hospital with a fractured leg. A court convened in the hospital to charge him with causing death by careless driving and free him on bail.

REDFORD, NEWMAN: PALS

Robert Redford has at least a few things in common with the average moviegoer. For starters, he's awed by Paul Newman. And he'd like to see his name alongside Newman's on a movie marquee again.

"If I had to," he said in an interview with Esquire magazine, "I'd probably say that Newman's my best friend. He's the greatest. Not much I wouldn't do for him."

After a recent evening with Newman, Redford said, he found himself thinking, "God, here's old Paul. . . . He looks great, feels great, has lots of money, gives to great causes, he's in love with his wife, he races his cars when he wants to, makes a movie when he wants to, he's incredibly happy and still has that face that looks the way it did when he was 20. God, by the time we got home, I wanted to shoot myself.

"I'd love to make one more movie with him," Redford added. "Just one more. The two of us."

BENEFIT FOR DARLWIN

Sports stars like Mike Ditka, coach of the Chicago Bears, donated items for auction and the cast of a musical comedy waited tables at a fund-raising benefit for Darlwin Carlisle, 9. The girl lost her lower legs after being locked in a freezing attic room on Jan. 17 in Gary, Ind.

The staff of a new pizza restaurant also donated all of Sunday's receipts to a fund to help pay her medical expenses.

NO BEATLES REPLAY

Relations among the three surviving Beatles have improved but Paul McCartney is "too moody" to allow any joint performances to take place, George Harrison said on Monday.

"Our relationship is quite good but there's no reunion of any Beatles," he said after returning to London from Los Angeles. "We have been having dinner together. We are friends now, the first time we have been this close for a long time. But it doesn't mean to say that we are going to make another group or anything."

BRIEFLY SPEAKING

-- Restaurateur-entertainer Sonny Bono faces stiff competition from seven other hopefuls in the Palm Springs mayor election on April 12, but he has the backing of his ex-wife, singer-actress Cher.

"When we were together, we must have grossed 50, 60 million dollars," said Cher, the star of the film Moonstruck. "I don't know very many idiots who can boast that."

-- Country music singer Charlie Daniels is encouraging radio disc jockeys to give all artists a chance when deciding which records to play on the air. "Please listen to as many of them as you can. A record is not a cold piece of plastic. It's very much a piece of somebody's life."

-- Queen Elizabeth II has appointed Nobel Prize winner Dr. Max Perutz and distinguished art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich to membership in the Order of Merit.