Goldie Hawn once said, “They thought I was a giggle — I knew I was a storm.” When she first stepped onto the set of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In in the late 1960s, television was a carnival of stereotypes, and the “dumb blonde” was its favorite act. Goldie was handed skimpy scripts filled with air-headed lines, designed to make her sparkle, not speak. But she refused to be just the glitter. Before cameras rolled, she took a pen, trimmed the jokes that mocked women, and rewrote the rest so they land

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