Actor-star Warren Beatty’s reputation as a Hollywood lothario was widespread in the 1960s and 1970s (Natalie Wood, Joan Collins, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie).
Nowhere was Beatty’s alleged prowess with women more savvily exploited than in Hal Ashby’s Shampoo, a rollicking satire of sexual politics and political sexuality in Nixon-era America.
In a project he tailored for himself, Beatty plays a horny Los Angeles hairdresser (a profession deliberately chosen as itis often associated with gay men).
He wields his blow dryer like a long, extra penis, wending his way through the bedrooms of Beverly Hills while seeking to bankroll his own salon.
In the process, he sleeps with his girlfriend (Goldie Hawn), an older mature woman (Lee Grant), his mistress (Julie Christie) and the 17-year-old daughter (Carrie Fisher) of a potential investor (Jack Warden).
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