Allan Arkush on SHAMPOO

Director Hal Ashby’s satire about a West Hollywood roué in the midst of an existential crisis is set against the backdrop of Nixon’s election in 1968 but was released in ’74 at the end of the Watergate scandal – an irony that did not escape the ticket buyers who made the film a huge box office success (the movie cost 4 million and grossed 50). Warren Beatty plays the horny hairdresser at the center of a sexual three-ring circus that includes, among others, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant and, memorably, Carrie Fisher. Robert Towne wrote the witty, elegiac screenplay.
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