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...maturity; in any case, it is a welcome, and slightly amazing, development. In an almost measurable way, the average age of desirability in American women seems to have risen by a dozen years or more. Women who might have been inclined to sigh ruefully at the inanity of a shampoo ad telling them, "You're not getting older, you're getting better," are starting to believe that it may actually be true. As for men, many of whom are still afflicted by a kind of sandbox nympholepsy-the women desired being a procession of "playmates"-more of them...
...original screenplay of Slapshot. Over a year later, Dowd came up with a long, ultimately unusable screenplay. Next they approached Waldo Salt, an Oscar winner for Midnight Cowboy, who ended up writing the screenplay. He suggested producer Jerome Hellman. Hellman and director Hal Ashby (Bound For Glory, Shampoo) eliminated some of the rhetoric, toning down the film's original polemical style. That may well be where it lost some of its political force. The love story may sell more tickets, but it doesn't come off as the stinging criticism Fonda may have intended...
...comedy Shampoo, Director Hal Ashby drew a scathing portrait of privileged Americans living in selfish bliss during the Viet Nam War. Shampoo was set in Beverly Hills against the pointedly ironic background of the 1968 presidential election; its characters were upper-middle-class philanderers whose lives revolved around the chic local beauty salon. Throughout the film, sad news from Southeast Asia blares forth from radios and TV sets, but no one in Shampoo bothers to listen. They are all too busy getting ready for a Nixon victory party that night to care about a war that seems a million miles...
Coming Home, Ashby's latest film, is the flip side of Shampoo-and its perfect companion piece. Also set in Southern California in 1968, the movie is about those unfortunate Americans who could not escape the war's deadly grasp: the men who fought in Viet Nam and the women they left behind. Like Shampoo, Coming Home offers a devastating vision of this country's recent social history, but the new film is no comedy. Coming Home is, as its material dictates, one long, low howl of pain...
...over there I find f- ing hard to live with," Luke tells the kids, as his voice starts to crack. "But I don't feel sorry for myself. I'm just saying that there's a choice to be made." At such moments Coming Home, like Shampoo before it, reminds us of the choices everybody made during those harrowing war years - and of the price the nation paid thereafter...