The Film Hal Ashby was not someone that studio executives were jumping up and down to work with, even as early as 1971. He already had a reputation of distrusting authority and being incommunicative. Yet his next project was to direct a Robert Towne screenplay...
The Film A 1960's free-spirit, Hal Ashby won an Academy Award for Editing ( In the Heat of the Night ) before he made his way to the director's chair. He was a key director of the " American New Wave " in the 1970s, and while the titles...