Lynne
is a Southern California native, born and raised in the illustrious town of San
Fernando, home to such cinematic and musical luminaries as Tor Johnson (he lived
around the block, that's his house Bela Lugosi lives in in "Plan Nine From Outer
Space"!) and Richie Valens. Raised on a steady diet of 50's and 60's sci-fi, "Outer
Limits" episodes, horror films, and professional wrestling (aided and abetted
by her brother Johnny Legend), Lynne somehow parlayed this rather dubious upbringing
into not only an all-consuming passion for trashy cinema, but managed to forge
herself somewhat of a career in the film industry also. Early on she acted in
a couple of films, "Teenage Cruisers" directed by her brother Johnny Legend, and
she played the female lead in a sci-fi hodge-podge called "The Aftermath". After
recovering from this experience, Lynne became a film editor, and for a few years
edited, and then produced TV commercials. She survived this experience also. In
1982, she offered to help out on the set of "My Breakfast With Blassie", another
masterpiece by Johnny Legend. It was on this film that she met Andy Kaufman, who
was starring along with the late, great "Classy Freddie Blassie", wrestler extraordinaire.
Lynne and Andy hit it off immediately (their meeting actually takes place on camera
in the film), and were together until Andy died in 1984 of cancer. (This is all
chronicled in the film "Man On The Moon", with Jim Carrey playing Andy, and Courtney
Love portraying Lynne. After Andy's disappearance Lynne wrote, directed (with
Joe Orr) and edited "I'm From Hollywood", a video which chronicles Andy's career
as a professional wrestler. (Andy and Lynne started work on this film in 1983).
In 1999, Lynne and Bob Zmuda, who was Andy's best friend and writer, co-directed
(Lynne also wrote and edited) an A&E Biography on Andy called "Andy Kaufman's
Really Big Show". Lynne was also creative consultant on "Man On The Moon". Somewhere
in the midst of all this, Lynne got a BFA in painting and drawing from the Academy
of Art College in San Francisco, where she has taught off and on since 1995. Lynne
recently finished production on a amazing new horror film entitled I PASS FOR
HUMAN, written and directed by Chris D., leader of the legendary punk rock groups
The Flesh Eaters and The Divine Horsemen. Lynne produced and edited. She has recently
started putting out limited-edition DVDs of rare Andy Kaufman footage from her
collection, as well as new and mindboggling Tony Clifton DVD's which she sells
here on this website and also in her eBay store. Besides this she divides her time between editing projects,
painting, gardening, babysitting Tony Clifton.