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BradifsBils -j BY JAMES BRADY Kelly was born in Minnesota and first came to New Vork to visit a friend I got off the plane I said is itr I came from a state with lots of tall blondes and I never thought I could model or act but they the Elite Model Agency! kept after me I couldn't imagine anyone paying me to After modeling for Elite (1981-85) her first acting job was in a TV movie only had one line how are said Kelly director felt so bad he wrote letters to other directors tor Now she lives near Los Angeles with her daughter Shane and her screenwriter 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 Pine boasts its own film festival which mostly shows old Westerns that were shot in the area was in the parade this said Kelly 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 Personal: Born Jan 31 1959 in Minneapolis Minn One daughter Shane 12 Married to Mitch Glazer Since 1992 Films: Include Osa 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 ot Egypt Marne 1994 Imaginary Crimes 1994 Virtuosity 1995 White Man's Burden 1995 Prisoners 1996 Cold Around the Heart 1997 Mr Magoo 1997 Television: Includes San Berdoo 1989 The Edge 1989 Red Wind 1995 I i i I 4 Bll HEN DISNEY schedules a film 1 1 for Christmas 1 1 release you can If be pretty sure I its marketing I I 1 I experts smell a Lj hit Well this Christmas movie from 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 ruthless international jewel thief and femme fatale forever assuming new disguises and has 1 8 changes of Wow! But this is a comedy Kelly usually appear in serious movies opposite actors like Cruise and Travolta? And she turn down the Basic Instinct role that rocketed Sharon Stone to fame? What's she doing making Disney comedies with farcical Leslie Nielsen? sees me as a Sharon said Kelly in my life the funny goofy one I was the one who could get the whole class laughing I was an awkward swan as a kid and thought if I became an actress I might grow up to be a Carol Burnett or Carole Lombard This is a sort of Cruella DeVil role the villainess of 101 Dalmatians If able to be bad and still make it fun then you get the Can you imagine Leslie Nielsen as "Mr Kelly Lynch plays his gloriously wicked co-star and telis us all about the movie and lots more audience rooting for And working with Leslie? an older man but about as active as any actor ever worked with He did a lot of his own stunts We had a Hong Kong action director you know Stanley Tong and he had Leslie snowboarding downhill on an upside-down ironing Why did Kelly go for the role? was a twofold she said car accident when I was 2 1 They thought never walk again I never believed 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 12 to see my work I let her see my other woik but she can see Magoo" And speaking of challenges Kelly said her family was looking for we can all They found it: going to climb Mount she said Which is I might remind you 1 4495 feet high the tallest peak in the contiguous 48 states IE PHOT(XRAPH BY EDDIE ADAMS SIYUST DENISE SOUS CLOTHES ROM BA RNE BEVERLY HII1S PAGE 30 DECEMBER 7 1997 PARADE MAGAZINE.