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Category Archives: Hal Ashby Fan Club

Let’s Film the Hawkline Monster

December 16, 2019by Evil Genius 6 Comments

At one time Greer thought he saw something different but he was mistaken. What he saw was exactly the same as what he had been seeing. He thought that it was smaller but then he realized that it was exactly the same size as everything else.

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Jake’s Journey: The Hal Ashby / Graham Chapman TV Show That Wasn’t

September 25, 2018by Evil Genius 2 Comments

Death did the show in, leaving it languishing in the misty-mists of misty-pre-internet-nowhere.

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Hal: A Documentary That Proves Hal Ashby Loved Me Best

September 21, 2018by Evil Genius 4 Comments

In which we get closer to answers and insights regarding one of the best—and least discussed—directors.

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Let’s Spend the Night Together and Film It

June 26, 2014by Evil Genius 2 Comments

Mick looks angry, Keith looks like he’s come to fix the sink, Wood is just joshing, Wyman resembles a cardboard stand-up, and Watts like he’s running sums in his head.

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Second-Hand Hearts: Hal Ashby’s Total Heart Failure

May 13, 2014by Evil Genius 11 Comments

Second-Hand Hearts was simply too weak to survive.

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Four Films by Norman Jewison

December 23, 2013by Evil Genius Leave a comment

Norman Jewison isn’t one of those directors whose name sets off a flurry of flashbulbs. He never won an Academy Award, or played golf with Richard Nixon (I’m assuming), or […]

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The Slugger’s Wife and Extended Slumps

October 16, 2013by Evil Genius 4 Comments

In the 1970s, Hal Ashby directed your favorite films; Harold & Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, and Being There to name a few. In the 1980s, his name topped an unbroken string […]

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Lookin’ to Get Out: What Hal Ashby Left Behind

July 12, 2013by Evil Genius 6 Comments

Hal Ashby was an immense, intuitive talent who drew indelible lines across the throat of our culture. He’s one of my favorite directors, but his career was brief. He left […]

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8 Million Ways to Die: Hal Ashby’s Lost Lifeline

April 9, 2013by Evil Genius 5 Comments

Here at Stand By For Mind Control, we’re big Hal Ashby fans. This is because he was one of the world’s most empathetic directors. His complex characters ride their flaws like […]

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Mind Control Double Feature #21: Aliens Watching Television

December 13, 2012by Supreme Being 3 Comments

Since its invention, television has been hypnotizing all humans careless enough to glance toward its gaping maw of doom. It takes a strong will to look away from the pretty […]

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“I Am The Motherfucking Shore Patrol!” Hal Ashby And The Last Detail

November 30, 2012by Supreme Being 3 Comments

The Last Detail (’73), director Hal Ashby’s follow-up to Harold & Maude, is a mysteriously compelling little movie. There’s not a dull moment in it, yet nothing happens. Ashby and […]

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Hal Ashby And Bound For Glory

November 21, 2012by Supreme Being 9 Comments

Speaking of directors with unbroken strings of great movies, does anyone top Hal Ashby in the ’70s? In order, he made Harold & Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound For […]

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Vote Warren Beatty Double Feature

October 25, 2012by Evil Genius Leave a comment

So, who are you voting for? Obama? Boooooring. I’m voting for Warren Beatty. Since the 1960s, this tussle-haired thespian has been all up in politics’ business. He’s been active on behalf […]

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