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Margery I. Miller...
With a few exceptions--Joan Rivers and Whoopi Goldberg both had short-lived late-night shows--women have been left to 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...
...syndicated Stephanie Miller Show, which has just debuted on 148 stations (with a starting time between 11 p.m. and midnight on most of them), combines interviews with sketch comedy. Miller, a former stand-up comic with a furrowed brow and frozen incredulous grin, has the mean challenge of competing against Leno and Letterman. But she is ready for the sniper fire. "I'm a complete unknown," says Miller, who is the daughter of William E. Miller, the conservative Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1964. "I'm a woman. If I made it, in a way it would be kind...
...that end, Miller has tried to develop her own trademark features. She hopes to interview "offbeat celebrities you may not see elsewhere." Her guests on the first week, however, were the sort of offbeat celebrities TV has managed to overexpose thoroughly, like RuPaul and Roger Clinton. Miller's real twist on the late-night formula is to employ a trio of sketch players who perform three or four skits each night. So far, the material has been topical and clever: one sharp sketch featured a Woody Allen impersonator directing a teenage girl in a Calvin Klein...
...Miller's own regular bits include jaunts to the ladies' room, where she bumps into surprise guests like Heidi Fleiss, who outfits her in new lingerie. In another recurring segment, Miller takes phone calls onstage from members of the studio audience, who are seen on a video monitor. The phone bits can be funny (a viewer revealed that she served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless...