Around this time, she was married to Gus Trikonis, a Shark in West Side Story. Her reputation as the ditzy blonde with the infectious laugh was born.Īlready a household name for her comic turns in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, her most critically acclaimed role came in 1969 with an Academy Award for best supporting actress for Cactus Flower alongside Ingrid Bergman and Walter Matthau.
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She dropped out of a drama major at the American University, Washington, DC, to take up professional dance work, which eventually led to her being spotted for a role in the 1967 sitcom Good Morning, World.
At 16, she appeared as Juliet in a festival production of Romeo and Juliet. She took ballet and tap lessons from the age of three and danced in professional ballet at the age of 10. Her mother was the daughter of Jewish immigrants and Hawn was raised in the faith and now usually refers to herself as "Jewish-Buddhist". Born in Washington, DC, she was raised by a dance school owner mother and band musician father. Hawn is held in huge esteem by her public, in part because she clawed her way up into Hollywood the old-fashioned way, via the chorus line. If she wasn't hugely popular, then Joan Rivers would not have been able to get away with telling this joke about Hawn's face on the David Letterman show last month: "She's been pulled so tight, they say that when she swallows she has an orgasm." She claims not to be remotely bitter about her career in recent years and in a recent interview admitted: "It's a young person's game." Despite her lack of big roles in recent years, Hawn's movies have generated so much goodwill that she has remained a significant Hollywood figure, whose comic persona is an abiding influence on younger performers. Doubtless Hawn will find some way to put a positive spin on affairs. There have been online rumours of "creative differences" and tales of numerous men reading opposite Hawn and somehow things not working out. Directed by Paul Feig of Bridesmaids fame, Hawn was set to play the lead as a woman abandoned by her midlife crisis husband and facing life alone for the first time in 35 years.
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And if anyone's going to do that, it's Private Benjamin, right? As one US reviewer puts it: "Goldie Hawn has always been the perfect role model for happiness." A recent profile described her as "the most deliriously contented person alive".īut is she really? Last week, there was the surprise announcement that Hawn has withdrawn from the forthcoming HBO series The Viagra Diaries, the new show from Sex and the City creator Darren Star. "We need more new schools outside local authority control to challenge the bureaucratic monopoly." Indeed. "We are meeting to discuss how she might be able to help education here," said Gove, somewhat improbably. In 2010, she met a (surely blushing or at least slightly stammering) education secretary Michael Gove to discuss the prospect of opening a Buddhist school in the UK. Hawn takes the aims of her foundation seriously. The Huffington Post portentously called it "not your run-of-the-mill self-help". It uses a programme called MindUP that Hawn developed with neurologist Judy Willis using forms of meditation and "mindfulness". She launched educational trust the Hawn Foundation, which has a UK wing, in 2005, with the motto: "To create the leaders of tomorrow we need to nurture the children of today." The foundation specialises in teaching social and emotional skills to enhance children's academic performance. Because if she wants such a job description to exist, she will make it happen. In recent years, Hawn, 66, has reinvented herself as a philanthropist and sort of "mindfulness campaigner". Already a New York Times bestseller, the book is aimed at parents and teachers in the hope that they will encourage children to practise the basics of yoga and meditation. This week, Hawn will grace Waterstones Piccadilly, London, as part of her UK tour to promote her meditation manual, 10 Mindful Minutes. Except for her, inner peace has turned into an international mission. And if anyone is going to do it with a smile on her face, it's Goldie Hawn.
W hat happens to Hollywood superstars when they semi-retire? They meditate, of course.
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