Single White Female with Mitchell Myerson (Stephen Tobolowsky), a fashion house owner who is looking to buy Allie's revolutionary new program. He manipulates her into significantly reducing the cost; as he is her first and only client, she accepts. Allie advertises for a new roommate to share her apartment in the Ansonia. She eventually settles on Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh), whom she nicknames "Hedy", and they become friends. Hedy tells of how she was supposed to be a twin but her twin was stillborn, leaving her with a constant feeling of loneliness. Hedy becomes overly protective of Allie by erasing Sam's voice-mail
Jennifer Jason Leigh Brothers' comic homage to 1950s comedy, "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994). Leigh took her first lead role as the writer and critic Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph's film "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" (1994). She received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, as well as Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and Fort Lauderdale Film Critics Best Actress Award. In another change of pace, she starred in Agnieszka Holland's version of the Henry James novel "Washington Square" (1997), as a mousy 19th-century heiress courted by a gold digger.