European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Profile Kurt Russell is having the Best of times by Bob Thomas associated press Kurt Russell will be 35 in a few months and unlike most actors he s not going to Start counting backwards. Russell is the most in actor like of actors having maintained his sense of proportion during 26 years in movies and he views the Onset of his Middle years with positive thinking traditionally in the film business an actor s screen life flourishes Between the Ages of 35 and 45. With women it seems to be from 20 to 35. It s unfortunate but that s the nature of the a rare actor who has enjoyed a film career both As a juvenile and an adult Russell has emerged As a versatile leading Man. He has demonstrated his skill with comedy used car drama Silkwood and horror the thing with equal skill. He s working now at 20th Century Fox in an action film big trouble in Little China reuniting with director John Carpenter. The new movie is described As a mystical action adventure Kung fun monster ghost Story about the imaginary world under Russell was spending the lunch break in his luxury Mobile Home outside the studio stage. He talked about his life and career including his current love Goldie hawn. We met at Disney s on the one and Only genuine original family band 1968 he recalled. Goldie was the Lead dancer in the movie and i played one of the kids. A year and a half later she made her big splash in laugh in. I remember her As one of the dancers and i guess she remembered me As some kid running around looking at her. A couple of years ago we did swing shift. We started having fun together and hanging out together. We kept having fun Ever now they Are building their own House in Aspen colo., where Russell has maintained his residence for almost 15 years. 20 stripes Magazine april 17,1986 Kurt Russell is living with actress co die hawn and the couple is expecting a child in june. For the first time Well spend half a year there our first non vacation in Aspen he said. Goldie has a boy 9 and a girl 6, and they la enrol in school there. I have a son 5 who lives most of the time with his Mother but hell visit hawn and Russell Are expecting their own child in june. Kurt Russell joined Walt Disney productions when he was 9 years old starting in television then moving to such features As the absent minded professor follow me boys and super dad and even the animated the Fox and the hounds. He came by acting naturally his father Bing Russell played the Bonanza sheriff for 14 years. Like his father Kurt tried for a baseball career but an injury sent him Back to acting. The Disney years were my education in the film business Russell remarked. I was fortunate to be Able to work consistently and constantly because the studio was making a steady program of films. Most of All i Learned the valuable lesson about screenplay construction. Whether the films were successful or not Disney scripts were always Well structured. And the character development in Disney films was always Well worked out. They May not have been True characters but they weren t false at 20, Russell found himself working consistently in television he starred in the series the travels of Jamie Mcpheeters and the new land. But it was not satisfying. He decided to make his Home in Colorado coming to Hollywood Only for features. Another Crossroads came when he was 26. After a third series the quest was cancelled Russell decided to devote himself to script writing. Then he was offered the television movie Elvis directed by John Carpenter. I was reluctant to go into another television venture he said but because of the subject matter i knew it would attract a Large audience. It could have been a disaster but everyone involved in the picture was interested in capturing the sense of who the Guy the Presley biography Drew one of television s biggest audiences and convinced producers that the Disney actor had acquired screen presence. Among his films Are escape from new York and the thing with Carpenter the mean season and the Best of everything. Swing shift was a disappointment to both Russell and hawn. There were a myriad of reasons Why it did t work if i had the Chance i think i would have recast my role he said. But they Haven t Given up the idea of re teaming. People have been doing it since the Days of Tracy and Hepburn but it s not As easy As it seems said Russell. You have to find a project that excites both of you if it does to Don t do it. And so far we Haven t found that kind of excitement "
