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Warren Beatty, who produced Shampoo and took a strong hand in the script, appears as a satyric-if not entirely satiric-Beverly Hills hairdresser named George, whose specialty is a nifty cut and a fast bedding for selected clients. George has a lot of energy, most of it focused on sex. He displays a kind of surface tenderness toward his women, although what undoubtedly makes him so successful in his conquests is that he looks like Warren Beatty. The movie might even be titled Advertisements for Myself. In any event, Shampoo concerns the day (election evening...
...Last Detail) would have needed all their wit about them. All through the movie, though, their attitude toward George wavers. When he bemoans to Jill the general poverty of his life, it sounds like just another of his ploys to mollify an anxious, angry woman. But the end of Shampoo subverts what has gone before. George discovers that Jackie is his one true love and he blubbers out a proposal -marriage, kids, the whole number -that reveals him as more sensitive than he ever could, or should, be. Jackie turns him down and departs for Acapulco with her rich investor...
...ending is a betrayal of all that is best in the film, revealing that the film makers have been interested in apologizing for George, not satirizing him. Still, much of Shampoo is good enough to make one regret its ultimate failure. The overpriced lassitude of Southern California living is well caught. Much of the dialogue has a keen edge ("I've been cutting too much hair lately," George rues at one point. "I'm losing all my concept"). The acting-especially Grant and Warden and Carrie Fisher, who appears as their nubile daughter-is well observed and sprightly...
...finished a book of selfdiscovery, which took place mostly during her 1973 trip to China with eleven other women. Now she plans to play Amelia Earhart in a movie. But before getting down to work, she stopped by to see a Manhattan screening of Warren's latest film, Shampoo, a comedy about a hairdresser's sex life. In it he claims "to challenge the assumption that a hypersexual character -a Don Juan-is acting out of anger or misogynist feelings or latent homosexuality." Despite Warren's machismo and Shirley's feminism, the two exchanged a warm...