Lauren Hutton honored at Sonoma film festival

<p>Of all the roles Lauren Hutton has played in her life — supermodel, actress, business owner — she prefers to be known for her “real life.”</p><p>“That's learning,” she said Saturday night after accepting an award honoring her four-decade film career. “How are we different, what makes us different and most importantly, what are the differences between the only two races – men and women.”</p><p>Hutton was saluted with the Spotlight Award at the 13th annual Sonoma International Film Festival, which concludes today.</p><p>A model since her early 20s, the famously gap-toothed Hutton, 66, accepted the award from her friend, comedian Robin Williams, himself an award-winning actor and a Sonoma Valley resident.</p><p>Before an overflow audience at the Sebastiani Theatre, Williams interviewed Hutton about her film career, modeling, her Southern upbringing, motorcycling and her deep sea diving adventures.</p><p>In her latest film, “The Joneses” — her first movie in 20 years — Hutton plays a corporate executive at a marketing company. Demi Moore and David Duchovny star as an ostensibly perfect couple whom she assigns to stealthily promote products in their everyday lives.</p><p>The film, which will screen twice today to wrap up the festival, opens to wide release on April 30.</p><p>At one point during the ceremony, tie-dye wearing peace activist Wavy Gravy tossed his red clown nose onto the stage, which Hutton promptly put on.</p><p>“She's beautiful, look at her – totally natural, even wearing a...clown nose,” Williams quipped in his rapid-fire, stream-of-consciousness delivery. “This is a tribute, let Scorsese do this.”</p><p>Hutton became a top fashion model for the Ford Modeling Agency and later a spokeswoman for Revlon cosmetics. She appeared on the cover of Vogue a record 27 times.</p><p>She first showed up on the big screen in “Paper Lion” in 1968 with Alan Alda and later starred with Richard Gere in “American Gigolo” in 1980.</p><p>In 1989, her modeling career took off again, with photo campaigns in catalogs for Barneys and J. Crew. She was the original “Charlie” perfume girl in the long-running ad campaign. </p><p>Fourteen years ago, she created her own line of cosmetics, Lauren Hutton Good Stuff, which she describes as professional beauty products that appear nearly invisible on the skin.</p><p>In 2005, at the age of 61, Hutton posed nude for “Big” magazine, saying she didn't want women to be ashamed of “who they are when they're in bed.” </p><p>In late 2008, she became the face of The Row, a high-end fashion line from Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.</p><p>The still striking Hutton, even with a few maturity lines on her face, says she hasn't and won't undergo cosmetic surgery.</p><p>Something she said when she was 22 still holds true today, she said Saturday: “I'd like to be wise....I still am looking to try to do that. I don't know what it is, but it would be an interesting thing, I'm sure.”</p><p>Performing in “The Joneses” reawakened the acting bug in her, she said, tempting her to quit her cosmetics business and jump back into film.</p><p>“Acting was fun, modeling was fun. Business isn't,” she said.</p><p>Hutton said she will spend two more days in Sonoma.</p><p>“I like it here because everyone hugs me,” she said, flashing the gap between her front teeth.</p>