It answers one thing: Nichols and his once and current partner, screenwriter Elaine May, can make a funny, knowing, ultimately judicious film from the deliciously satyric satire .
In Lolita, Humbert, an educated European, could wax satyric in language as elaborate as any poet's or pedant's.
Warren Beatty, who produced Shampoo and took a strong hand in the script, appears as a satyricif not entirely satiricBeverly Hills hairdresser named George, whose specialty .