Kurt Russell

It could be that he recently moved to Canada, or that he doesn't have his own publicist. Or that he's been acting professionally for 41 of his 51 years, or that he once played minor league baseball for the Angels and the Padres. Maybe it's that he flies airplanes, hunts deer and holds political views that oppose those of his liberal friends, or that he hasn't made a career of trading on his dimpled good looks.

Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have put their Malibu beach house back on the market, chopping $3.5 million from last year to price it at $11.2 million. The Balinese-inspired home faces sand dunes and the ocean. The 4,300-square-foot house, built in 1978 and renovated in 2005, is entered through a gated courtyard. Features include a screening room, a bar, a gym, an office and a detached guest house. The master suite has floor-to-ceiling windows and a beachfront balcony for a total of four bedrooms and 41/2 bathrooms.

John Carpenter loves L.A. . . . really. "I've been here for 26 years--it's the cutting-edge of America," says the gaunt, gray-haired director of "Escape From L.A." "We're what America is going to be like. We're multicultural, we try our best to get along the best we can, and we're poised over the edge of the apocalypse." The City of Angels plunges past that edge straight into hell in Carpenter's just-released $50-million sci-fi satire.

It's crowded at the beach. Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have listed their Malibu beach house for $14,749,000 — joining about 50 other homes priced at $10 million or more in the coastal city. Entered through a gated, landscaped courtyard, the Balinese-inspired house backs up to sand dunes and the ocean. The 4,300-square-foot house, built in 1978, was redesigned and renovated in 2005. It has a screening room, an office and a detached guest/meditation room. The master suite features floor-to-ceiling windows and a beachfront balcony for a total of four bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms.

Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have put their Malibu beach house back on the market, chopping $3.5 million from last year to price it at $11.2 million. The Balinese-inspired home faces sand dunes and the ocean. The 4,300-square-foot house, built in 1978 and renovated in 2005, is entered through a gated courtyard. Features include a screening room, a bar, a gym, an office and a detached guest house. The master suite has floor-to-ceiling windows and a beachfront balcony for a total of four bedrooms and 41/2 bathrooms.

It's crowded at the beach. Actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have listed their Malibu beach house for $14,749,000 — joining about 50 other homes priced at $10 million or more in the coastal city. Entered through a gated, landscaped courtyard, the Balinese-inspired house backs up to sand dunes and the ocean. The 4,300-square-foot house, built in 1978, was redesigned and renovated in 2005. It has a screening room, an office and a detached guest/meditation room. The master suite features floor-to-ceiling windows and a beachfront balcony for a total of four bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms.

Claudia Eller expressed surprise that Kurt Russell, a star with less "marquee value" than A-list actors, was being paid $10 million for the upcoming "Escape From L.A." ("Despite 'Waterworld,' Big Movies Won't Dry Up," Business, July 25). Liz Smith likewise remarked that Russell's fee was a "sensational salary for a guy who's really not quite in the upper echelon of box-office draws" ("Russell's Banking on 'L.A.,' " Calendar, July 21).

"GO, Moj. Go get him, Moj. Do your job." Kurt Russell is lounging outside the lush Malibu home he shares with longtime companion Goldie Hawn, watching his 3-year-old English bulldog, Mojo, bark as he runs after any birds that dare land near the beach property. It's hard to believe that Russell, a still-youthful 54, is a 45-year veteran of show business.

A Saturday night in the Rockies: Goldie Hawn's 11-year-old son, Oliver Hudson, and two sleep-over friends have just left for a fast ski run down a nearby slope; 8-year-old daughter Kate Hudson and one sleep-over friend are jack-knifed over a pillow, watching a videocassette of "Saturday Night Fever"; 17-month-old son Wyatt Russell is chasing Snowball, the all-white cat, and Hawn, perky as ever at 42, with hardly a line or wrinkle, is gobbling a quiche-without-crust dinner of broccoli and

The plaid pants did it. And the moment during a practice when Herb Brooks barked an order to his players, hitched up his shoulder and skated away. Sitting in a screening room in Burbank, alone except for my memories and a predisposition to dislike Walt Disney Pictures' "Miracle" for dramatizing an event that needed no theatrical enhancement, I gasped, shaken more deeply than I'd expected.

KURT RUSSELL, the leading man in films as varied as "Escape From New York," "Silkwood" and "Dreamer," was in Austin last week for the Texas premiere of "Grindhouse." The 56-year-old stars in Quentin Tarantino's slasher half of the double feature, whose zombie half is directed by Robert Rodriguez. * You're getting ready for a premiere right now. What designer gown are you wearing? I'm just getting ready to go! As is often so, something Western. Uh, designer boots?

"GO, Moj. Go get him, Moj. Do your job." Kurt Russell is lounging outside the lush Malibu home he shares with longtime companion Goldie Hawn, watching his 3-year-old English bulldog, Mojo, bark as he runs after any birds that dare land near the beach property. It's hard to believe that Russell, a still-youthful 54, is a 45-year veteran of show business.

It should come as no surprise that dreams do in fact come true in "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story," a classic underfilly tale about a girl, her horse and the family farm they bet against when dad Ben (Kurt Russell) accepts an injured racehorse as partial severance after getting himself fired from his job as a horse trainer.

The plaid pants did it. And the moment during a practice when Herb Brooks barked an order to his players, hitched up his shoulder and skated away. Sitting in a screening room in Burbank, alone except for my memories and a predisposition to dislike Walt Disney Pictures' "Miracle" for dramatizing an event that needed no theatrical enhancement, I gasped, shaken more deeply than I'd expected.

The great radio monologist Jean Shepherd liked to say that the only truth to be found on television was in sports, because only in sports could the good guys end up losing. But not always. Sometimes the good guys actually win. In the 1980 Winter Olympics, if you were an American or in fact any nationality except Russian, the good guys won big. In a victory recently chosen as the greatest sports moment of the century by Sports Illustrated, the brash and unheralded U.S.

It could be that he recently moved to Canada, or that he doesn't have his own publicist. Or that he's been acting professionally for 41 of his 51 years, or that he once played minor league baseball for the Angels and the Padres. Maybe it's that he flies airplanes, hunts deer and holds political views that oppose those of his liberal friends, or that he hasn't made a career of trading on his dimpled good looks.

It's cold and damp, just the sort of night where most movie stars would stay cozied up in their trailers. But tonight one of the stuntmen is doing a daredevil motorcycle jump and Kurt Russell--something of a cycle nut himself--wouldn't miss it for the world. "This guy's really a hot rod," says Russell, pointing to the cyclist. "He knows his bikes. You can bet this gag's going to be really good." In movie parlance, gags are stunts and there are plenty in "John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.

Was it really almost four decades ago that Kurt Russell got his start in show business as a child actor? During the intervening years, the 47-year-old Russell has not only managed to make the treacherous crossover into adult roles, but also has miraculously morphed from an average guy into a steel-jawed, mini-Arnold Schwarzenegger who reportedly commanded $15 million for his latest film, "Soldier." In the futuristic action movie, which Warner Bros.

One might think El Nin~o was visiting its wrath inside Stage 16 on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. The rain is pouring down, the wind is kicking up and lightning strikes are igniting the garbage throughout what appears to be a colossal refuse dump. Wet, exhausted and bloodied, actors Kurt Russell and Jason Scott Lee are duking it out for a climactic scene in "Soldier," a science-fiction epic being directed by Paul Anderson ("Mortal Kombat," "Event Horizon").