Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbu...
's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude (1971) , Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola , Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce. — Lisa Janssen