The Goldie Hawn Special -1978

Her singing in her house that’s about to drop into the ocean is ridiculous.

Goldie Yawn.

Ah, thank you, OP. Call my tastes pedestrian, but I loved Specials like that when I was a kid. In 1977/78 I was a freshman in high school. I loved Goldie Hawn, having seen her in "Private Benjamin." You took me back to memories of of a very happy childhood. With Thanksgiving a few days away and Christmas around the corner, I miss my parents, grandmother, and so many others. My last two aunts died this year, one just last week. That generation is gone now. That Special might have been schmaltz, but I love stuff like that. Thank you!

I made it through that intro dance number(vaguely like the opening of Death Becomes Her). She’s not really a singer, but she was very physical. That number might have been harder to perform than it looked because it had all this physical comedy choreographed into it. It’s corny but in some ways impressive. That era of variety television was garish and silly, and most everyone who appeared in it must cringe watching it now (if they’re still alive).

I think she worked out pretty obsessively to stay in shape throughout her career, and she transitioned handily between tv and film. I have to admire her creative output, and some smart business decisions like producing Private Benjamin. She was smart in a sort of stealthy way.

R3 this special was two years before Private Benjamin. Try again.

TCM showed "Foul Play" a couple of week ago and I was surprised at how good she looked. I am old enough to have seen it in the theater, but it was so long ago that I'd forgotten. She had a great stylist and hairdresser for that picture.

Would not be fun running in those heels. I imagine.

That opening number is painful.

Costumes by Bob Mackie.

Couple of things:

1) I never knew the lyric was “close the window, calm the light”? I always thought it was, “close the window, some inside.”

B) Guys In Sweatpants? Where’s Austin?

4) I like the cliffside house, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Gary’s and Abby’s Malibu home.

She sings "We're All Alone" watching herself walk on the beach with a dog.

But are the trains on time?

I agree she was at her prettiest in "Foul Play." So was Chevy.

I'm all alone because my dogs ran away and the guys took the ladder that got me on top of that giant rock on the beach.

Thanks OP! I saw that special at the time and I've always remembered the "Yesterday" sequence. How great to see it again all these years later.

[quote]Denis Stewart who had the scorched face and was Travolta's nemesis in Grease 1978.

He dies at 46 of AIDS.

Wow, I never knew that Craterface was gay in real life. Always thought he was ugly hot in Grease.

R17. I agree, he’s ugly hot.

So what, R5? I got the dates wrong, but OP gave me a smile.

Who knew Goldie was so good at basketball?

I had a Golden Retriever named Genevieve who was diagnosed with clinical depression. Yes, even dogs can experience it. She ended up on doggie Prozac, and my vet explained that this is surprisingly common in the breed, affectionately dubbing it “Sad Goldie Syndrome.” Now, whenever I see Goldie Hawn, I can’t help but think of my sweet, melancholic Genevieve.

R6 She really did look good in Foul Play and she moved well on camera. But the plot of that film felt so contrived and irritating in the last portion. They staged this mad dash to the Opera House to save the Pope from an assassin instead of picking up the telephone to inform the security detail on site. It was all so goofy and implausible, and felt like a remake of the really expensive screwball chase in What’s Up, Doc?.

Chevy Chase was very tall and masculine in his prime, but turned into something awful later in life.

Goldie and Liza auditioning for the "Chicago" movie 22 years before it was made.

Denis Stewart also appeared as a backup dancer in this bizarre Steve Martin snippet from a Sgt Pepper movie I never knew existed.

Why do they have an image of Marilyn's blown-up skirt from The Seven Year Itch in the montage of the 1960s?