Friday, March 10, 2006

Goldie Hawn doesn't trust Women

Rarely has a female studio executive enjoyed more attention than Universal Pictures Chairwoman Stacey Snider got last week when Steven Spielberg wooed her into becoming DreamWorks' chief exec. But Goldie Hawn isn't impressed.
"Women have been absolutely no help, because they're working very hard to please the men that they're working for, and they are afraid to stand up for women," Hawn laments.
Goldie recalls when she, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler delivered Paramount's Sherry Lansing a hit with "The First Wives Club."
"It was a great success, but [Paramount] didn't want to do a sequel," the 60-year-old Hawn recalls in the AARP magazine. "Diane called me and said, 'We've got to do this.' … I got a call from the head of the studio, who said, 'Let's try to make it work. But I think we should all do it for the same amount of money.'
Now, if there were three men that came back to do a sequel, they would have paid them three times their salary at least. ... Then it was reported to me by my agent that the head of the studio said, 'Isn't Goldie getting a little greedy?' And she was a female, so in terms of women helping women, this was really a kick in the butt."
Hawn says studios paid attention to her latest project - a comedy called "Ashes to Ashes," which she wrote and hopes to direct - only after her longtime love Kurt Russell became involved.: "The studio reaction always was, 'Who's the man?' ... You can't win."

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