Timothy Hutton Has Growing Pains

August, 1983

Timothy Hutton has Growing PainsTimothy Hutton is a honey bunch.The reedy 6'1" actor with the clear, urgent blue eyes is 22--just two years older than my own son--and I am, give or take a year, the age of his mother; so there is almost certainly no lack of propriety, and absolutely no danger to either of us, in my rubbing his stiff neck and his bronchialsore back while he reclines in his suite at The Sherry-Netherland. I have a feeling that the girl in his bedroom, a starlet named Joyce, ma...