THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
30 Friday, December 12, 1980
'Private Benjamin' Movie Role Provided
Challenge for Actress-Comedienne Hawn
INTERLUDE
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During the past 10 years, the "Crystal Night" mas-
In the film, Miss Hawn at
the
enterprising young lady sacre that sparked the
first lives in a dream world.
starred
in "Dollars" with Holocaust.
HOLLYWOOD — Goldie She has married a society Warren Beatty; in 'But-
lawyer
(Albert
Brooks),
but
Hawn now starring in the
terflies Are Free"; "The Girl
title role of "Private Benja- her youthful husband from Petrovka"; "The
passes
on
during
their
wed-
min," a screen comedy with
ugarland"; "The Dutchess
serious undertones, talked ding night. In her distress,
with us at a foreign press she falls into the hands of an and the Dirtwater Fox";
conference about the char- Army recruiter who con- "Foul Play" with Chevy Ch-
acter she portrays and vinces her that the armed ase; now also appearing
with Chase in the still unre-
about her own background. forces have a place for her.
leased Neil Simon screen
Judy
Benjamin
goes
from
On the screen, she ap-
"Seems Like Old
pears as a pampered "prin- marching down the aisle to comedy,
Times."
Next, she con-
marching
into
a
boot
camp
cess," so spoiled, coddled
and overprotected by her where her madcap adven- templates the filmic version
affluent parents, who see to tures quickly accelerate, of the musical "Chicago"
it that their little girl has from utter disappointment with Liza Minnelli .
ROBBY BENSON was
everything she could ask with the all-too-harsh basic
for. In reality, Goldie grew training to her achieve- on hand at the TWentieth
up in a middle-class house- ments as a model soldier Century-Fox reception for
hold with her economy- who is being transferred at the stars of "Tribute." The
minded Jewish mother last to special duties in 25-year-old actor, a veteran
holding on to the purse Europe. A young woman of stage and screen, cur-
seeking an identity of her rently co-starring in Chaim
strings.
own, she succeeds to break Potok's "The Chosen,"
with her sheltered past and whose real name is Robin
ultimately finds her niche Segal, has been performing
since the age of five. He was
in the world.
Miss Hawn caught the at- first seen on the stage with
tention of the public in the his mother at the age of six
at both stores
late 1960s as a regular on in "The King -and I," at 13
TV's "Laugh-In" show, after he appeared with the late
to celebrate
she had made her profes- Ed Begley in "Zelda," and
the occasion -
sional dancing debut at the still in his early teens with
New York World Fair in Hal Linden in the Broad-
"Can-Can" and appeared in way musical, "The
Gotham in revivals of "Kiss Rothschilds." With his
Me Kate" and "Guys and father, Jerry Segal, has col-
VISA'
Dolls." Following her suc- laborated on songs and
master charge
cess in television, Mike screenplays since he was 14.
In "The Chosen," Benson
Frankovich signed her for
the key supporting role in essays the role of the son of
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tifies himself as a "Shabbes
goy" during his childhood
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