>> it was a love story with the two oddest possible people. ♪ there's is a million things to do ♪ >> he learns how to live with the idea that we all will die at some point and we don't know when and it's so beautiful, i can hardly talk about it without choking up. ♪ i can see >> that soundtrack mattered a lot to this movie. it was this marriage of weirdness, darkness, death, comedy, sex and cat stevens was just sort of a magical thing, you know? ♪ so shine, shine, shine >> hal ashby is really interested in the eccentric and the outsider and the misunderstood. i think in all his films, you could see threads of that. >> what about me? >> what about you? you're different. >> i am? >> you're great. >> for me, the best of ashby's work is "shampoo" which told a political story and a romantic story and a sexual story.