Jody Scheckter

January, 1974

"You can't walk around unshaven in California," says one of its new residents, animated-film maker Ralph Bakshi. "In New York, I used to put on a dirty shirt and visit the Bowery. It was great. But here, everybody's so clean. It's ridiculous." He's glad to be in California anyway, because that's where people who make movies live and the 32-year-old Bakshi has just finished his second, Heavy Traffic, the semiautobiographical story of a shy cartoonist in the New York slums, who...