| Show Kelly wm born in Minnesota and first came New Vork to visit a friend When I got off the plane I said to This is itT I came from a state with lots ot tall blondes and I never thought could model or act but they the Elite Modei Agency kept after me I couldn't imagine anyone paying me to pose After modeling lor Elite 1981-8- I BY JAMES BRADY Personal: Bora Jan 31 1959 in Minneapolis Minn One daughter Shane 12 Married to Mitch Glazer since 1992 Films: Include Os a 1985 Bright Lights Big City 1988 Cocktail 1988 Road House 1989 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Desperate Hours 1990 Curly Sue 1991 Three of Hearts 1993 The Beans of Egypt Maine 1994 Imaginary Crimes 1994 Virtuosity 1995 White Man's Burden 1995 Heaven's Prisoners 1996 Cold Around the Heart 1997 Mr Magoo 1997 nIlfn I fill 1 1 I I III If ill f HEN DISNEY schedules a film her first acting Job was in a TV movie for Christmas S reease yu can be pretty sure its marketing experts smell a hit Well this Christmas movie from years Disney is Mr Magoo with Leslie Nielsen as a live version of the myopic cartoon character and tall lovely Kelly Lynch as in her own words a ruthless international jewel thief and femme fatale whos forever assuming new disguises and has 18 changes of costume Wow! But this is a comedy Doesnt Kelly usually appear in serious movies opposite actors like Cruise and Travolta? And didnt she turn down the Basic I only had one line: Hi how are you?' said Kelly The director felt so bad he wrote letters (to other directors for me" Now she lives near Los Angeles with her daughter Shane and her screenwriter Instinct role that rocketed Sharon Stone to fame? Whats she do- ing making Disney comedies audience rooting for you with farcical Leslie Nielsen? And working with Leslie? Includes San Hes an older man but about "Hollywood sees me as a Berdoo 1989 Sharon Stone said Kelly But as active as any actor Ive ever The Edge 1989 Red in my life Im the funny goofy worked with He did a lot of Wind 1995 one I was the one who could get his own stunts We had a Hong the whole class laughing I was Kong action director you know an awkward swan as a kid and Stanley Tong and he had Lesthought if I became an actress I lie snowboarding downhill on an upside-dow- n might grow up to be a Carol Burironing board nett or Carole Lombard This is Why did Kelly go for die role? a sort of Cruella DeVil role the There was a twofold reason villainess of 30! Dalmatians she said "A car accident when If youre able to be bad and still I was 2 1 They thought Id nevmake it fun then you get the er walk again I never believed Television: PHOTOGRAPH BY EDDIE ADAMS: STYLIST DENISE SOUS: CLOTHES FROM BARNEY'S BEVERLY HUMS Can you imagine Leslie Nielsen Magoo"? as "Mr Kelly Lynch plays his gloriously wicked co-st- ar and tells us all about the movie and lots more them and here was a director who asked me to do my own stunts So it was a challenge but also an opportunity for my daughter Shane 1 2 to see my work I cant let her see my other wotk but she can see Magoo" And speaking of challenges Kelly said her family was looking for something we can all do They found it: Were going to climb Mount Whitney she said Which is I might remind you 1 4495 feet high die tallest peak in the contiguous 48 states IB PACE ao DECEMBER T 1997 husband Mitch Glazer They also have what sounds like an Idyllic escape three hours away in Lone Pine Calif a village on the slopes of Mount Whitney about 80 miles from Death Valley Each October Lone Pme boasts its own film festival which mostly shows old Westerns that were shot in the area I was in the parade this time" said Kelly They were desperate so I went dressed in my Dale Evans outfit and I rode in a car with a guy dressed as Zorro Lone Pine is only five blocks long so the parade goes five blocks then turns around and comes beck" PARADE MAGAZINE |
