Why We Still Love Goldie Hawn
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2. Her dumb-blonde role on Laugh-In led to a pretty serious award.
In 1968, Goldie became known nationwide as the blonde in the bikini who danced between sketches on the classic TV series Laugh-In. Soon afterward, she was cast as a ditzy 21-year-old in the comedic drama Cactus Flower. Although the movie also starred film heavyweights Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman, it was Goldie who walked away with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. 
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3. She met Kurt Russell about 15 years before they actually got together.
Goldie and Kurt were in the late 1960s Disney movie The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, although he was a lot higher on the cast list. (Goldie was second from the bottom, in a part listed as Giggly Girl.) More than a decade later, Goldie, by then one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood, was auditioning actors for her movie Swing Shift (released in 1984). Kurt Russell walked in, won the male lead part and began a relationship with Goldie thats still going strong. Goldie was married twice, to Gus Trikonis and Bill Hudson, before she got together with Kurt. But shes never married Kurt because, as Kurt says, If it aint broke, dont fix it. (The couplehave raised Kate and Oliver, Goldies children with Bill Hudson, as well as their own son, Wyatt.)
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4. She recorded a country album.
In 1972, with help from country music legends Dolly Parton and Buck Owens, Goldie did a country album calledGoldie. The album --which included the songs My Blue Tears, Butterfly and I Wanna Roo You-- wasnt a popular or a critical success. But you can still buy it on amazon if youre interested.
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5. When Goldie's daughter, Kate Hudson was born, doctors thought she was a boy.
At Elle magazines Women in Hollywood event last month, Goldie said that when Kate was born, doctors kept insisting that the baby was a boy, although she herself knew the infant was a girlwithout even looking. Then, she said, the doctors saw their mistake. And I thought, What part of her anatomy are you looking at to make a mistake like that?"
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6. Shes a self-described Jewish Buddhist.
Goldie was raised in Judaism and became interested in Eastern philosophy in the early 1970s. Eventually, she became a practicing Buddhist, and says shes been able to combine the two traditions. If she had to choose, though, she has said she would choose Judaism. In 2008, while on a visit to Scotland, she was booed by pro-Palestinian activists critical of her support of Israel. Her Hawn Foundation helps teachers and children bring the Buddhist practice of mindfulness (peaceful attention to the present moment) to schools.
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7. She spoke out publicly against bullying and gossip.
In 2001, long before bullying was getting the public attention it is today, Goldie spoke out against it and against gossip as part of a campaign called Words Can Heal. "Ive sat around dinner tables of others where they have done nothing but talk about people the whole dinner, she explained to an interviewer. I didn't want to be thereYoure going nowhere talking about people.
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8. She used to worry that she was a lesbian.
Goldie told an interviewer that she had for a long time been concerned that she might be gay, because I used to look at a pretty girl and think she was so great. And if she was a lesbian, Hawn said, she would have to give up Kurt Russell. Eventually, she concluded that admiring another womans appearance did not mean she was gay, adding, I love men.
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9. She does the right thing.
Goldie took a few years off in the early 1990s to care for her mother, Laura Steinhoff, who was dying of cancer. Goldie also stayed with her mother until she died, in 1994.
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10. She believes that nothing is as powerful as the truth.
The biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, she once said, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.
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