By: Sam Juliano
Of course I believe Mel Brooks’s THE PRODUCERS to be the best satire of the past 40 years, with BEING THERE as a close seond.
View ArticleBy: wondersinthedark
Yes, Sam, but as I said on the phone, THIS ISN’T ROCK…it’s like calling Babes in Arms pop music. You need to get the transparent pretentious phoneyness of the whole scene, to have heard the often...
View ArticleBy: John Greco
Well, since I have been reading a bio on Hal Ashby I will just add a few thoughts of my own. “Being There” is an excellent satire, based on a great book by Jerzy Kosinski. Along with The Last Detail...
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John: Oddly enough, a number of people would pose SHAMPOO as Ashby’s greatest film, while others would defiantly go with the cultish HAROLD AND MAUDE, but I have alwats felt BEING THERE was the...
View ArticleBy: Bob Clark
Well, “Shampoo” is another one of those films that’s there but for the grace of its screenwriters. All due respect to Mr. Asby, but it’s easy to imagine that film directed by either Robert Towne, or...
View ArticleBy: Sam Juliano
You know Bob, in a sense it isn’t fair to Ashby that nearly all his films are to be credited to his screen writers. While that element is irrefutable, one must look at the way he orchestrates the...
View ArticleBy: Bob Clark
True, but I’m admirer of Towne’s & Beatty’s work, so it’s a longstanding thing that doesn’t quite have to do with Ashby himself on this one. I’m also pointing them out because of both of them tried...
View ArticleBy: John Greco
Bob is correct in crediting Shampoo to Beatty and Towne. According the bio, Beatty and Towne were controlling much of what happened, for example, the music to the soundtrack. Ashby wanted to used music...
View ArticleBy: Sam Juliano
Fair enough John. That info is pretty definitive as far as I see it. I’d be most interested when you get through the work to learn of Ashby’s ultimate complicity on some of the other films, including...
View ArticleBy: Robert
NIN and Tool were “serious artists” but Priest and Dio, etc, were a joke? Can you be serious??? At least they created great music without the constant use of swear words like NIN and Tool and Korn and...
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