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live When the Tribune first spoke with Fallon in November, he said his show would stick to the talk show format perfected by Johnny Carson four decades ago: monologue, desk comedy bit, two guests and a band. But beyond that, what can we expect? For one, an Internet presence like few talk shows before. Even before a single episode has aired, Fallon has already taken advantage of the Webocracy. Through polling on the Web site, the Web audience selected the new logo. Fallon has solicited his Twitter followers for jokes (his handle is lon), and hehas indicated viewers would be able to talk to him through Internet phone and video tapings.

The Web site will be staffed by three full-time bloggers, who will compile viral videos, post photos and the sort. think a lot of shows use the Internet as well as they said Fallon by phone last week before a test show taping. want to make it so you could enjoy Night With Jimmy in as many ways as The 34-year-old Fallon has also become a prolific Twitterer (yes, it really is him sending Tweets from his iPhone). It was through the micro-blog- ging Web site that Fallon announced his first guests: Robert De Niro, Justin Timberlake and More inside Hey, Jimmy: iO students have some jokes for you. PAGE 2 Meet the house band: The Roots.

PAGE 2 Follow the first show TV critic Maureen Ryan will blog about late-night debut at chicagotribune.com/watcher Pleaseturnto Page2 By Chris Jones TRIBUNE CRITIC NEW Broadway has always been a floating crap game. But as this show-killing recession deepens, beleaguered producers are clearly feeling as if every new opening is like throwing a Hail Mary pass against Big crooked dice. The first Broadway revival of the musical and since Nathan Lane and Faith Prince cracked up the Rialto with their follies nearly two decades ago offers a sense of what it must have felt like to havebeen one of the victims during the St. Day massacre. on the wrong end of a whole lot of intense, desperate scattershot.

Des strangely cast, uncharacteristically insecure and weirdly unfunny features Oliver Platt as the perennial bachelor Nathan Detroit and Lauren Graham as Miss to have six different concepts for this show, tries to do them all at onceand manages to make none of them land. This show partly wants to be a retro, Day-Glo for the massive amounts of period signage in the Nederlander Theatre (until recently the home of not just speaking of the traditional marquees floating in the air. One huge sign has been planted in the theater itself, its bulbs close enough to the seats to THEATER REVIEW and revival: Survival may be a long shot Lauren Graham stars as Miss Adelaide in and Pleaseturnto Page4 New York and Chicago styling business Visual Therapy. It the first time she has done so. face it, the lemongrass daytime inaugural ensemble with rhinestones at the neck felt he said.

causing controversy, and I think good. If we have a woman of style and substance out there rocking it, whether you like it or not, rocking As Monroe Township, N.J., reader Edwina Ogden pointed out, Desperate times sometimes call for sleeveless measures. No one would argue the appropriateness of Linda exposed guns, say, in her capacity. Whether Michelle Obama was right to bare her arms on the occasion of her speech lastTuesday night, however, has been debated. In the sea of suited members of Congress, she perhaps was pushing old-school propriety, said Jesse Garza, co-founder of the not the first lady to do so.

Jackie Kennedy rocked a sleeveless dress at her State of the Union address Jan. 14, 1963. good enough for the first lady from the LAST Ogden e-mailed, these modern times can manage the And may we add, those buff biceps are one recession-proof accessory. Donahue Exercising their right to bare arms In Camelot Jackie Kennedy wears a silk ziberline in 1962. REUTERS PHOTO At center of controversy Bare-armed Michelle Obama waves to her husband before his speech to Congress last Tuesday.

GETTY PHOTO In character Linda Hamilton is armed and dangerous in 2: Judgment 1. Get advice from other talk show hosts been so nice. given me all sorts of advice. Probably the best advice is: just gotta do it. Just do it and keep going, and learn from doing it Kimmel has been really great.

great. His advice was the biggest celebrity always the best guest. I have not talked to David Letterman. I figured 2. Plan a talk show now for me, figuring how to have a conversation seem natural.

And getting in and out of commercials, because you have commercial breaks in real life when talking to people. What they do to make it easier is they pre-interview guests. So they have bullet points of funny stories to touch on. an art to hitting those bullet points and making them tell their 3. Get jokes from the Twittersphere was at the Consumer Electronics Show Las and across the street was the Adult Entertainment Expo.

And I just tweeted, got to be some double- entendre jokes here, come on I got hundreds of them in a matter of five minutes, and good ones. Double the RAM. I got walking around. Lots of multiple input wants you to follow him set your and The old Conan ones work. Be sure that it says Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

(not case a dry run for a test show tomorrow. The Roots are here. This is all getting is my last night of the unknown. By the time I go to bed tomorrow night I will know what Retweeting SECTION3 Follow Fallon at twitter.com/jimmyfallon By Kevin Pang TRIBUNE REPORTER When Jimmy Fallon takes over the franchise Monday night, he will inherit highest-profile petri dish. Studio 6B at Rockefeller Center will become a laboratory for the 21st Century talk show, and for a Facebooking generation, where Fallon will experiment, fail and succeed as all three on the same night.

Has faced its demons? So far, the Holly Hunter show is no Mo Ryan says. PAGE 5 THE WATCHER Product: CTTEMPO PubDate: 03-02-2009 Zone: ALL Edition: HD Page: ACTEMPO1-1 User: lseemann Time: Color:.