TV REVIEWS : ‘Rolling Stone ‘93’ a Fast-Moving Hour of Mini-Profiles

The misleading title of the special “Rolling Stone ‘93: The Year in Review” promises another dutiful annual roundup of newsy star depravities and the like. In fact, next to nothing about the previous 12 months gets reviewed, which is probably just as well.

Instead, the fast-moving hour (at 9 tonight on Fox, Channels 11 and 6) is made up of nine celebrity mini-profiles, with MTV-style funky editing that leaves the interviewer on the cutting room floor--like a sped-up Barbara Walters special without Barbara.

Even without a narrator, the show manages to be fawning, but at least the celebs chosen mostly hold the camera on their own, masters of their media domain.

For some, it’s their same old entertaining shtick, from Jerry Seinfeld’s charming yet unrevealing jests (“The best thing about being in the tabloids is you don’t have to worry about them getting the story right”) to rocker Bono’s recent ongoing self-parody (“The one thing that really doesn’t come off in the media is sincerity. . . . So I threw that out the window and went for bull. . . .”).

Some segments have a bit more depth: k.d. lang talks about coming out as a lesbian, too briefly in this context to satisfy. Steven Spielberg discusses his most incredible year, jumping from “Jurassic Park” (“It was a bar mitzvah for 7-year-olds; they would see the movie and say ‘Today I’m a man!’ ”) to “Schindler’s List.” Most impressive, Pete Townshend--the one non-megaseller nod to Rolling Stone’s roots--protests to old Who fans that he’s “trying to be honest with the fact that I’m 48 years old and I want my dignity.”