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Article: Portia de Rossi definitely is not a case of `Arrested Development'.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- November 2, 2003
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Byline: Luaine Lee
HOLLYWOOD _ Actress Portia de Rossi flies from one passionate project to the next _ sometimes literally. The dishy lawyer with the long, blonde hair who decorated the firm on "Ally McBeal," flies helicopters.
"I had about 60 hours in an R-22, which was amazing and fun but I stopped doing it for the time being because I got scared, and that's the honest truth," she says in a noisy press room office at a hotel here.
"I love it. It's exhilarating and thrilling, but I am now good enough to get my private pilot's license. It's in the family. My brother actually owns a helicopter company in Long Beach."
She began to back ...