Shampoo Montage

one of the best films about california, ambition, and circumstance. my favorite warren beatty film and along with Being There my favorite Hal Ashby production. in the film warren beatty sleeps with a wife her husband's mistress and the wife's daughter. in real life he was sleeping with the mistress (julie christie) and the woman playing his fiaance in the film (goldie hawn). this is the fleetwood mac of american cinema. later after Being There hal ashby kind of lost it on drugs, perfectionism etc according to wikipedia: "Entering into a drug-induced spiral after Being There (his last film to achieve widespread attention), Ashby became notoriously reclusive and eccentric, retreating to his spartan beachfront abode in Malibu, where he smoked prodigious amounts of marijuana and frequently refused to eat in the presence of other people.
The productions of Second-Hand Hearts and Lookin' to Get Out − a Las Vegas caper film that reunited him with Voight and featured Voight's young daughter, Angelina Jolie − were plagued by the director's increasingly erratic behavior, such as pacifying former girlfriends by hiring them to edit Lookin' To Get Out. Studio executives grew less tolerant of his increasingly perfectionist editing techniques, exemplified by his laboring over a montage set to the Police's "Message in a Bottle" for nearly six months. Initially set to helm Tootsie after two years of laborious negotiations, reports of these bizarre tendencies resulted in his dismissal shortly before production commenced."

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'In the opinion of actor Bruce Dern, "What happened to Hal Ashby, both what he did to himself and what they did to him, was as repulsive as anything I've seen in my forty years of the industry".'