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	Hal Ashby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 - December 27, 1988) was an American film director and Academy Award winner.
		Born in Ogden, Utah, Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a tumultuous childhood as part of a dysfunctional family which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and dropping out of high school.
		Hal Ashby died of cancer on December 27, 1988 in Malibu, California.
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	Hal Ashby - Homepage
		HAL ASHBY, who has died at Malibu, Calfornia, aged 59, was a versatile film director, with a liberal, gently satirical approach, whose credits included Being There, Shampoo, Coming Home and The Last Detail.
		Ashby entered the film industry as an assistant editor in the early 1960s and by the end of that decade had earned a reputation as one of the most skilful in the business.
		In 1974 Ashby made his mark as a mainstream director with The Last Detail, which told the story of two hard-boiled naval petty officers (Jack Nicholson the senior) escorting a young comrade (Randy Quaid) to a military prison, where he is to serve eight years for a minor offence.
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	Hal Ashby -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 - December 27, 1988) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American film director and (An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance) Academy Award winner.
		As Ashby was entering adult life, he moved from Utah to (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California where he quickly became an assistant (Click link for more info and facts about film editor) film editor.
		Hal Ashby died of cancer on December 27, 1988 in (Click link for more info and facts about Malibu, California) Malibu, California.
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	Hal Ashby
		Ashby's skills as an editor, now freed by his creative control over the picture, are on display from the opening moments, as he crosscuts between high contrast footage of a racquetball game and the softer, more natural tones of the African-American neighbourhood, a visual motif that continues throughout the film.
		Ashby builds additional layers of commentary and humour onto the scene by having Chance flip to an aerobics program, whose instructor encourages viewers to “explore slowly.” By the end of the scene, Eve is panting on the floor, unaware that Chance is standing on his head, just like the woman on television.
		Hal Ashby was diagnosed in early-1988 with a cancer that spread rapidly to his liver and colon and to which he succumbed, finally, on December 27.
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	How the Last Shot in Being There Actually Got Made (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hal knew he could make it work, just as he knew that there was no way in hell the studio would approve of more money for such a controversial shot that wasn't even in the script.
		Hal personally went to each theater, went to the projection booth, knocked on the door and said to the projectionist "Hi, I'm Hal Ashby, the director of the film.
		Hal's contract specifically stated that he was to be paid his director's fee "upon proper delivery of a completed film." They didn't consider receiving a film with two endings "proper delivery," and they used that as an excuse not to pay him.
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	Hal Ashby Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born: c.1929, Ogden, UT Died: December 27, 1988, Malibu, CA Ashby began his film career, thanks to the California State Department of Unemployment, as a mimeograph-machine operator at Universal Studios in 1957.
		He rose to become a full-fledged editor within a decade and was given his first chance to direct in 1970, when Norman Jewison was unable to carry out his assignment on The Landlord.
		Ashby went on to earn commercial and critical success, and gained a reputation as a gentle, amiable director who paid meticulous attention to casting.
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	Being There with Hal Ashby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hal Ashby was once going to direct my screenplay of Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction.
		Hal's way of teaching me was to tell me stories of how his films got made.
		Hal had told me that his average shooting ratio was 20 to 1, and we've all heard how directors like Kubrick do hundreds of takes of the same shot.
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	Encyclopedia: Hal Ashby
		The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act.
		In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 film, based on the John Ball novel published in 1965 of the same name, which tells the story of a Northern US African-American police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in the American...
		Being There is a political, satircal 1971 novel by Jerzy Kosiński and a 1979 film directed by Hal Ashby.
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	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Hal Ashby (1929-1988) was born in Ogden, Utah.
		Ashby made his directorial debut in 1970 and helmed such films as Harold and Maude (Paramount, 1971) and Shampoo (Columbia, 1975).
		Ashby received an Academy Award for editing In The Heat of the Night (United Artists, 1967) and was nominated for editing The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (United Artists, 1966).
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	Melancholy and the infinite wisdom of Hal Ashby - The Daily Texan - Entertainment
		Due to a busy schedule, Jewison left the film to Ashby, who over the course of their four films together, became a protege to the director, although in post-production of The Landlord, the duo's relationship dissipated after a quarrel about the film's ending.
		Ironically, while one of Ashby's greatest strengths as a director was his ability to tell timeless stories, the chaos of popular culture during the 1970s created the one thing that inhibits the director when watching his films today.
		The dramas about Woody Guthrie and a Vietnam veteran, respectively, won Ashby acclaim and allowed the director to build upon his nostalgic view of America from two completely different points of view, but was a notable departure for the director who would end the 1970s with his most searing film, Being There.
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	Images - The Films and Career of Hal Ashby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		al Ashby was one of the most prolific and successful filmmakers of the 1970s, producing a string of hits beginning with the cult success Harold and Maude (1971) and lasting through Being There (1979).
		Despite this, Ashby is little remembered today and, when he is mentioned in critical anthologies, it is usually in condescending or sometimes even disparaging terms.
		David Thomson, for instance, in A Biographical Dictionary of Film calls Ashby "a sad casualty who depended on strong collaborators." In addition, Ashby did not direct his first film until the age of 40, so the body of his work as a director is relatively small.
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	MTV.com - Movies - Hal Ashby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He made his directorial debut with 1970's The Landlord, then became the fair-haired boy of the cult-movie circuit with his film Harold and Maude (1971), the bittersweet saga of the offbeat relationship between a death-obsessed young man and a freewheeling elderly woman.
		Ashby's subsequent track record as a director was remarkable, including such now-classic efforts as The Last Detail (1973), Shampoo (1975), Bound for Glory (1976), Coming Home (1978), and Being There (1979).
		Ashby's winning streak was broken by the sloppily self-indulgent Second-Hand Hearts (1981), after which he wielded the megaphone on such indifferent efforts as The Slugger's Wife (1984) and Eight Million Ways to Die (1985).
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	Harold and Maude directed by Hal Ashby starring Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort
		Buy the video tape of Harold and Maude, 1971, with Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, directed by Hal Ashby, written by Colin Higgins, original music by Cat Stevens, Cinematography by John Alonzo.
		Hal Ashby's genious as a director shines with this quirky script that wastes not a line while taking on huge social and political concepts with the playfullness of 80 year old Maude who teaches 20 something Harold how to be a kid again.
		Directed by Hal Ashby, the film is a pure, quirky delight that struck a strong core with audiences just beginning to look for alternative Hollywood fare at the time.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - Being There -- Hal Ashby - DVD - Wide Screen
		A bizarre series of events catapults him into the inner circle of a politically active industrialist (veteran actor Melvyn Douglas in an Oscar-winning turn), who mistakes Chauncey's childlike rejoinders for profundity and proposes that he run for president.
		Kosinski's script, rife with absurdities but savagely witty and unsparing in its digs at the intelligentsia and the political elite, is visualized with elan by director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude), who keeps a tight rein on the normally irrepressible Sellers.
		Among the supporting players, Shirley MacLaine is deliciously subtle as the smitten woman whose amorous advances go right over Chauncey's head, and Jack Warden appears to advantage in one of his customarily blustery characterizations.
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	Hal Ashby VHS Coming Home :: GermanRecipes.biz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude) does succumb to melodrama on occasion, but these are forgivable slips.
		A triumph from the late, talented Hal Ashby.
		In particular, the use of Tim Buckley's "Once I Was" in one scene is so overpowering that I wondered for many years what the song was, and where I could find it, searching through used record bins for the...
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	Hal Ashby @ Filmbug
		Over the next 16 years, Ashby would direct several acclaimed and popular films, including the off-beat romance Harold and Maude and the social satire Being There with Peter Sellers.
		Tell us what you think of Hal Ashby in the Filmbug forum...
		Find more details on the Hal Ashby Movies page
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	Hal Ashby - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		I've never noticed any Ashby love on the boards before, but he deserves it.
		I really hope that some of you will check out his films if you have never seen them before, they are fucking amazing, and they can't be beat.
		The movie seemed headed towards a somewhat melodramatic ending, which still would have worked, but ole Ashby turned around and made the most cynical ending you will come across.
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	Hal Ashby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household in Ogden...
		The Children's Hour (1961) (assistant editor) (as William Hal Ashby)
		Find where Hal Ashby is credited alongside another name
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	Amazon.com: Harold and Maude (1971): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon).
		Screenwriter Colin Higgins, who went on to write the "Foul Play" and "Nine to Five," and director Hal Ashby, who went on to do "Coming Home" and "Being There," hit a pair of bullseyes with the casting of this quirky little story.
		Bud Cort plays Harold and you almost forget how good of a job he does with his part because Ruth Gordon has the part of her life as Maude.
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	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Hal Ashby: MAIN
		Hal Ashby - Filmography, Awards, Biography, Agent, Discussions, Photos, News Articles, Fan Sites.
		by Darren Hughes - profile of film director Hal Ashby.
		We pick the top 11 movies for every mood, including 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang' for anyone prone to liking hilarious, sexy, original, action-packed films starring Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr.
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	Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 December 28 in History
		Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 December 28 in History
		Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59
		Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
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	Hal Ashby VHS Being There :: GermanRecipes.biz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His only reference to the world is through his childlike addiction to television, and when a chance encounter brings him into the inner fold of a dying billionaire (Melvyn Douglas), he suddenly finds himself the toast of Washington's political elite.
		His simple phrases about gardening are misinterpreted as anything from economic predictions to sage political advice, and under the sharp direction of Hal Ashby, Sellers has the audacity to take this comedic conceit to its logical extreme.
		This is the character Sellers was born to play.
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	Being There starring Peter Sellers directed by Hal Ashby
		Buy the video tape of the movie Being There starring Peter Sellers directed by Hal Ashby written by Jerzy Kozinsky.
		Thanks to an extraordinary, delicately balanced performance by Peter Sellers, Being There received mixed reviews during its theatrical release in 1979, but has since become a celebrated comedy with a loyal following.
		Being There is not for all tastes--especially not for those who don't appreciate comedic subtlety.
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	Amazon.com: DVD: Being There (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		IMO director Hal Ashby caught Jerzy's intention with this movie even better than the book did.)
		At the same time that people read wisdom into his simple words, Chauncy is fully present and honest in the moment, and the other characters--to whom this is foreign--treasure that, even while they completely miss that Chance is totally clueless as to what's really going on (with one notable exception).
		I am not sure that the DVD is an original or a copy of the original.Even the wrapping and the picture on the box seem suspect.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056WRD?v=glance (2382 words)

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