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| Kelly Bishop is in this week's People Magazine in the tribute dedicated to Dirty Dancing.
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THE MOM KELLY BISHOP
THEN Originally cast to play Vivian (the married older woman who hits on Swayze's Johnny Castle), Bishop, 63, arrived onset only to discover they wanted her to play Mary, the mom. "Jerry Orbach whispered in my ear, 'Take it, it's better,'" recalls Bishop. "So I did it. He took me under his wing." When she wasn't learning the merengue, "We played Scrabble," she says. "Scrabble was a rough game with Jerry--he knew all the two-letter words."
NOW For the past seven years Bishop has played Emily, the grandmother on the WB's Gilmore Girls. "I was just hooked into the show," she says. Since the series has been canceled, "I've got to get back onstage," says Bishop, who lives in New Jersey with her husband, TV personality Lee Leonard, and was in the original 1975 Broadway cast of A Chorus Line. "I love theater--it's my home."
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