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...guys, naturally, who are the most funked out. They are passionately committed to the wrong women (as is the case with Matt Dillon's Tommy), unable to commit to the right one until it's too late (Michael Rapaport's Paul), or endlessly considering their options (Timothy Hutton's Willie). The latter, a barroom pianist in New York City, has come home to think over his relationship with a high-powered lawyer. Before making the right decision, he flirts with another visitor (Uma Thurman) and, most interestingly, with the 13-year-old who lives next door (Natalie Portman...
...amuse from the guest chair. But the fall TV season has brought two new women to late night: Stephanie Miller, the brash former host of a top-rated Los Angeles radio show, and the husky-voiced former supermodel (and co-star of this season's Central Park West) Lauren Hutton. Both aspire to distinguish themselves with shows that are, in at least some respects, stylized and unconventional...
Fortunately Lauren Hutton doesn't dabble in comedy in her eponymous show (airing on 105 stations, mostly at midnight or later). Hutton's is a straight half-hour interview program featuring a single guest each night. "You can't carry out a thought in a four-minute appearance," says Hutton, 51. Her guests on the first two weeks have been an eclectic lot ranging from rapper L.L. Cool J. to marine biologist Sylvia Earle...
...show's major innovation, however, isn't its format or guest list, but a moody visual style that gives a viewer the feeling of walking into a bewildering installation at the Whitney Museum's Biennial. Created and directed by the photographer Luca Babini (Hutton's boyfriend), the talk show looks like no other. It is filmed, not taped, and the camera sways back and forth, not only between Hutton and her guest, seated across from each other at a table dressed with a fruit bowl, but also to TV-screen images of them looking alternately fascinated and confused...
...jarring cinematography at least distracts from Hutton's childish interviewing. So far, she has demonstrated a knack for questions it would take whole university faculties to answer. To Kathleen Turner: "Tell me about motherhood." To Gabriel Byrne: "Tell me about love." To L.L. Cool J.: "Tell me about the start-up of rap in the black community." Her later, less competitive time periods may ease the pressure, but if Hutton wants to be a late-night combatant, a few tutoring sessions with Oprah might help...