Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, many were about outsiders and adventurers traversing the pathways of life. They included the off-beat romance "Harold and Maude" (1971), "The Last Detail" (1973), and the social satire "Being There" (1979), with Peter Sellers, giving the star a well-received role after many felt he had lapsed into self-parody. His most significant commercial success was "Shampoo" (1975), a collaboration with Warren Beatty and Robert Towne that satirized late-1960s sexual and social mores through the life of a hairdresser modeled after such contemporaneous figures as Jay Sebring and Jon Peters. "Bound for Glory" (1976), a muted biography of Woody Guthrie starring David Carradine, was the first film to utilize the Steadicam.