Shampoo

Actors: stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, 

Carrie Fisher

Rating: 8 out of 10, This movie has aged very well and provides an hysterical look back into the late 1960s. It’s also a scathing comment on the insular nature of the rich and the L.A. elite as well. Beatty as George, at the height of his fame, plays basically himself, a hairdresser lothario that women cannot get enough of. He’s hapless in the face of his life crumbling around him as his various conquests come together to confront him and causes him to lose the one special one. This all happens on the night Nixon was elected. The climax takes place at two separate parties one establishment and the other counter-culture. Neither comes across as redeeming and I guess that was the point. It was fascinating to see the younger versions of Hawn, Grant, Fisher, and Christie. I’d forgotten how drop dead gorgeous and talented each was.

MVP: Lee Grant as Felicia, wife and one of George’s paramours