Shampoo

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The Rocky, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shampoo, Return of the Pink Panther, Love and Death, Three Days of the Condor, The Man Who Would Be King, Night Moves, Rollerball, The Stafford Wives, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mirror, Chalet, Grey Gardens, French Connection II.

Anything else?

Ooh.

Mm.

And he'd come up with stories after Shampoo.

He came up with Heaven Can Wait.

He came up with Reds.

We only do the ones

we really want to revisit, like Sorcerer we'll redo, and Shampoo.

What's that wedding one you hated? I don't even remember the name.

Oh, you're cordially invited.

And then people have referenced, what was the one I watched about the male hairdresser in Beverly Hills?

Shampoo.

Yeah, Shampoo.

People reference that movie pretty often, actually.

And I, you know, if people reference movies and I haven't seen them, you know, sometimes I play along.

It was nominated for two Oscars, including Best Actor and one for Supporting Actor Melvin Douglas.

This is the last in Hal Ashby's remarkable 70s run, which included Harold and Maude, Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound for Glory, and Coming Home.

A number of those films got Oscar nominations along the way.

Ashby actually won an Oscar for editing In the Heat of the Night before he became a director.

I just like the look.

It's kind of like how I think Shampoo came out around the same time, and I think Warren Beatty and Shampoo's the hottest he ever looked, too.

So it must be like around the mid-'70s where these heartthrobs, 60s heartthrobs, really got the man bodies.

Oh, dude.

That dude's fucking loves it.

Yeah.

And then you got Beatty and Shampoo cruising around on a motorcycle through Mulholland.

That that's as manly as it gets.

It's difficult to find someone who doesn't know at least one thing about Carrie Fisher.

From a young age, Fisher was propelled into superstardom by chance for a role in a movie that nobody, not even the majority of those making it, believed would be a success.

The cast and crew, Fisher included, weren't aware they were making history, creating movie stars, and building an enduring franchise that would keep people watching movies and series, playing games, reading books and comics, buying toys, and then [beep] about all of it, and so much more for over five decades.

Carrie Fisher is best known for her role as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and, in a smaller capacity, in the later films.

Fisher was more than an actress.

She was a writer, an advocate, her own worst critic, her biggest hater, and eventually, her most understanding fan.

In fact, she wasn't convinced of much of anything yet.

[gentle music] Born to such legends as Reynolds and Fisher, Carrie presented a level of ambivalence towards acting, as it was both a natural path and a family expectation, which made it feel like a burden.

Coming Home.

Coming Home was written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones from a story by Nancy Dowd, directed by Hal Ashby, who we have seen before with Shampoo I think was the other movie that we've, we've seen.

And there was another one that I'm, uh, the Russians.

Oh, well, he's the editor for the Russians are coming.

And I think he is a great example of somebody who is a real jack of all trades in the industry, you know, obviously started as an editor and then sort of evolved to not just be a great screenwriter, but then a great American auteur.

And I think this might be the first movie of his that feels like full Ashby.

Not that Shampoo, but Shampoo, you have the Beatty influence that is significant.

um but i also think you know to your point trevor this movie is a great collaboration this is not a singular voice movie this has four screenwriters it has a star who was very involved in its creation it has you know all these great sort of ties to what was happening in america and this really really um incisive self-reflexive look at the country which feels completely unfathomable for a studio movie in 2026 um we're certainly not making things that are grappling with current political events the way a movie like this is grappling with current political social um cultural events as a I've seen this movie maybe three or four times.

This role earned her an Oscar nomination.

And she was also in The Heat of the Night, Shampoo, for which she won an Oscar.

Her career was interrupted when she was blacklisted for 12 years.

after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.