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Past Perfect: Goldie Hawn
by Suzan Ryan on Nov.23, 2011, under Columns
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| Millions tuned in to watch 1960s sketch-comedy show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, but not only because it was funny. Viewers also got to gawk at a go-go dancing Goldie Hawn, who played the ultimate hippie hottie—a bubbly ingenue with big blue eyes and lustrous lashes.Playing the epitome of the dumb blonde, the former ballet dancer and university drop-out used her comedic skills to act the all-round ditz, and we loved her for it.
Unconcerned with being typecast, Goldie giggled her way through her feature film debut, playing a dancer in 1968′s The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, and as a scatterbrain mistress in Cactus Flower (1969), which earned her both a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. With her career on the rise, Goldie starred opposite Peter Sellers in 1970 farce There’s a Girl in My Soup, holding her own against the comedy legend. She then showed she wasn’t just a fun babe with a rockin’ bod by impressing critics with her mature performance in drama Butterflies Are Free (1972), in which she portrays a young woman who helps her blind neighbour/lover deal with his past and controlling mother. It was official: Goldie Hawn was versatile. Also in 1972, the beauty surprised fans yet again by teaming up with country music stars Dolly Parton and Buck Owens to record the album Goldie, which features covers of Parton’s ‘My Blue Tears’ and Joni Mitchell’s ‘Carey’. |
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| After returning to her (blonde) roots with 1975 box-office hit Shampoo, Hawn entered a cinematic and personal dry spell. She appeared in a few forgettable flops and got divorced from her husband of seven years, Gus Trikonis. However, soon after Goldie married musician Bill Hudson and gave birth to two children, Oliver and Kate, both of whom are now actors.Goldie’s marriage to Hudson lasted just four years, but by then she’d formed a solid comedy partnership with Chevy Chase, appearing with him in 1978′s Foul Play, where Chase plays a feckless detective tasked to protect Hawn’s character, who is entangled in a murder plot, followed by 1980′s Seems Like Old Times.
Private Benjamin was also released in 1980, and proved to be the film that Goldie needed to launch her back onto the A-list. Hawn is fantastic as a snobby socialite turned army chick, and her entertaining performance earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Hawn also made her debut as an executive producer on Private Benjamin, and she has since produced an additional seven movies. Then along came lucky bugger Kurt Russell. Even though the two had worked together previously on The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, they fell in love on the set of 1984′s Swing Shift, and went on to star in the 1987 leadweight comedy, Overboard. Proof that Goldie could still do scorching (now well into her 40s) came via 1990 action comedy Bird on a Wire, in a scene where a gust of wind lifts Hawn’s skirt to reveal brief briefs and a healthy amount of arse to an appreciative Mel Gibson, who quips: “When did you start wearing underwear?” No digital trickery was required when Goldie played a woman with a perfect figure following an immortality treatment in 1992 comedy Death Becomes Her, before letting it all hang out as an ageing groupie in 2002′s The Banger Sisters. Passing the sexy on to daughter Kate Hudson. So much for the ‘dumb blonde’. |
Feature: Sexy Cinema Stars
by Suzan Ryan on Nov.22, 2011, under Features
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NEWS: Caligula director to make 3D porno
by Suzan Ryan on Mar.05, 2010, under News, Web Exclusives
Tinto Brass, director of skin-flicks as Penthouse classic, Caligula, and All Ladies Do It, says he has been inspired by the success and cope of James Cameron’s Avatar, and has plans to make a 3D porno. No word yet as to what level Brass’ inspiration will begin or end.
Past Perfect: Olivia Newton-John
by admin on Feb.03, 2010, under Articles, The Magazine
With her amazing blue eyes, perfect blonde hair, sweet smile and perky breasts, every male teenager in the world wished that Sandy Olsson was an exchange student at their school when Grease came out in 1978.
By Kate Hutchinson Continue reading “Past Perfect: Olivia Newton-John” »
Sibling Rivalry
by admin on Jan.08, 2010, under Features, The Magazine
If acting is in the blood, then the cinematic haemophilia suffered when Hollywood brothers are cast together puts slasher movies to shame
Story: Dominic Cadden Continue reading “Sibling Rivalry” »
Reviews – movies, music, games and books
by admin on Jan.04, 2010, under Reviews, The Magazine
Check out the best in Summer entertainment with our reviews of the latest books, music, games and movies! Continue reading “Reviews – movies, music, games and books” »
Reviews – books: The Devil’s Guide To Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas
by Suzan Ryan on Dec.07, 2009, under Reviews, The Magazine
The Devil’s Guide To Hollywood
Joe Eszterhas
St Martin’s Press
Review: Suzan Ryan
Outspoken, belligerent, insightful, indiscreet and undeniably talented, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is the man behind some of Hollywood’s most expensive scripts and highest-grossing movies—such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct.
He is also a man with a quick temper and a low threshold for idiots; making him a poor fit with the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) vacuities of the people involved with Hollywood’s movie machine. Eszterhas is almost too eager to speak his mind, no matter the cost.
For the famed screenwriter, retaining ownership of your dignity in a town where weak character is king and integrity is an affect available for sale by-the-hour, is essential to not blowing out your brains at the end of the day.
The Devil’s Guide To Hollywood is a tell-all tome that is as much about keeping the faith as it is as about the art of scriptwriting (i.e. don’t let the bastards see you blink). It is wickedly humorous, painfully revealing, scathingly vituperative, and honest (despite the author’s clearly hurt feelings perpetually colouring his comments).
You don’t have to be interested in the art of screenwriting to fall in love with this book; possessing a modicum of integrity, a cynical sense of humour, and a distaste for the malignant narcissism of most people, is sufficient.
Digital Playground signs AVN starlet McKenzie Lee
by Suzan Ryan on Oct.19, 2009, under News, Web Exclusives
DIGITAL Playground has signed British porn star McKenzie Lee to an exclusive performance contract.
The sultry brunette, who now lives in California, only recently returned to the industry after a three-year break following her AVN award win for Best New Starlet in 2006.
Digital Playground founder Joone, says his company has wanted McKenzie for a while. “We’ve had our eye on McKenzie ever since she shot Jack’s Playground 28 and Jack’s Teen America 9 in her fantastic year leading to the Best New Starlet award. Her radical performances add a new dimension to our roster of contract stars.”
“In my movies, I always look to push the envelope and fulfill all of my sexual fantasies,” admits Lee. “Signing with Digital Playground has been one of those fantasies. I’ve always thought of myself as a gonzo girl, and [Digital Playground] truly understand that gonzo can still look beautiful. They shoot crazy, hard sex that is higher quality than anything else.”
Lee began her career dancing at gentlemen’s clubs in Birmingham, England, until her popularity forced a move to London, where she performed at the city’s premier venues for six years before relocating to America in 2005.
Read our review of Jack’s Playground 28, starring McKenzie Lee
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