SOURCE: "Don Juan in Beverly Hills," in Newsweek, Vol. LXXXV, No. 6, February 10, 1975, p. 51.

In the following excerpt, Michener favorably reviews Towne's collaboration with Warren Beatty on Shampoo, suggesting that "many people will view Shampoo as 'Warren Beatty's film,' not just because he is listed as producer, co-author and star, but because his public persona is … in many ways its central subject and joke."

Warren Beatty, a rich, complicated man with a reputation as Hollywood's most active Don Juan, has made a rich, complicated comedy about the perils of Don Juan-ing called Shampoo. To imply that Beatty alone is responsible for its success is unfair to his sharp-eared co-screenwriter, Robert Towne, his sensitive director, Hal Ashby, and his brilliant co-stars, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden and Lee Grant. But many people will view Shampoo as "Warren Beatty's film," not just because he is listed as producer, co-author...