Goldie Hawn the Playboy Interview. Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell, for the third time, in the comedy "Overboard" (1987). In 1990 she starred in the action comedy "Bird on a Wire", a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson. Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller "Deceived" (1991), the drama "CrissCross" and opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in "Death Becomes Her" (both 1992). Earlier that year, she starred in "Housesitter", a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial success. Hawn was absent from the
Goldie Hawn comedy bits alongside comic legend George Burns, teen matinee idol Shaun Cassidy, television star John Ritter (during his days on "Three's Company"), and even the Harlem Globetrotters joined her for a montage. The special later went on to be nominated for a primetime Emmy. Four months later the film "Foul Play" (with Chevy Chase), was released and became a box office smash, reviving Hawn's film career. The plot centered around an innocent woman in San Francisco who becomes mixed up in an assassination plot. Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's "Lovers and Liars" (1979), was a box office bomb. In 1972