The Buzz: Steve Martin fathers a child — at age 67

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He’s been a wild and crazy guy for decades, but this might be his most daring move yet: Steve Martin is a first-time father at age 67.

It’s been an irony of Steve’s career that the consummate on-screen dad never had kids of his own, but the star of “Planes, Train and Automobiles,” “Father of the Bride” and “Parenthood” is indeed only now entering parenthood. His rep confirms to Us Weekly that “Steve Martin and his wife are new parents and recently welcomed a child.” The wife in question is 41-year-old former New Yorker writer Anne Stringfield, who, incidentally, bears a striking resemblance to Steve’s onetime fling Kristin Davis — I guess we know the man’s type.

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