Kelly Hu? Yeah, you can do a whole Abbott and Costello routine with that name. Born in Honolulu, Hu is a former Miss Teen USA and the first Asian to win that distinction. She’s also the daughter of an exotic bird feeder, Herbert Hu, who may have shortened his name not to be confused with Herbert Hoover the crook who singlehandedly created the Great Depression. Having force fed an exotic bird or two in our lives, we understand Kelly’s need to beat up boys in the neighborhood, and so her brother arranged Kung Fu matches for the Martial Arts-oriented Kelly to do so. A graduate of Pepperdine University, Kelly wound up getting some modeling gigs and is apparently famous for a series of Philadelphia Cream Cheese ads in which she karate chops a block of it in half. Kelly went on to do a gig in the TV series Growing Pains which was pretty much the career cul-de-sac for most young actors. Unless you argue for her subsequent part in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a step up the thespian rung. An abysmal showing in the Miss USA pageant would have convinced most women to have taken that waitressing job at TGI Friday’s. Except Kelly persisted and got typecast as the butch lady cop in a number of films and TV series including Nash Bridges. Hu, who also embraces poker like a fat man hugs a greasy Italian sandwich, is getting way up there and never been married. We say no more. Ala Brooke Shields, Hu has adopted the Hefty Cinch Sak for afternoon wear. Beyond that, the dame’s got a nice looking set of pins down to the hefty bulge we like in the calves. Tanned and inviting. Then we venture down a bit further, and all of a sudden we’re in a cemetery. Crypt Keeper toes beckon us. But we refuse their heed because we’re way too young to party with corpses. We give Kelly a farewell “1″ realizing it’s also bad luck to whistle in the graveyard.
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