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The Beach Boys and Warren Beatty

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Sometimes when we arrive late to certain lavish outdoor parties, we find that our girlfriend has left us, or that our boyfriend is fucking his old girlfriend. Or as the wealthy Republican operative Lester (Jack Warden) says in Warren Beatty’s Shampoo (1975, directed by…