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My castaway this week is Goldie Horn, regarded as Hollywood prototype Dizzy Blonde,

but like most things in Tinseltown, the image is somewhat adods with the reality.

An Academy Award winner and producer and now educational philanthropist,

she's been on the A-list for 40 odd years,

starring alongside Peter Sellers, Walter Matau and Woody Allen.

Now transmuted from fantasy pin-up to best-selling author.

She writes parenting manuals and spearheads a childhood learning initiative.

So, how on earth did she manage to make the journey from dancing in sleazy go-go bars

to bagging an Oscar and an Emmy and then practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy?

She says, I had developed an inflated view of myself.

It came as such a relief to be given permission, not to be perfect.

Will you do to use Doctor's terminology sort of present as perfect Goldie Horn?

How much better than any 66-year-old has the right to?

You have this long and apparently enduring love affair with your partner of nearly 30 years

and you seem very close to your kids.

That must all have been very hard work, has it?

It's been an intention.

I don't know that it's hard work, but it really is what I wanted out of life.

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