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6 hours ago · The movie’s dark undertow comes from Gittes’s discovery that the murdered water commissioner’s wife, Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), gave birth to a daughter after being raped by her ...
1 day ago · Robert Towne, the celebrated screenwriter of “Chinatown,” died at age 89 on Monday at his home in Los Angeles, his publicist Carri McClure confirmed to TheWrap on Tuesday. He won a Best Screenplay Oscar for penning Roman Polanski’s 1974 neonoir, and was also nominated for his scripts for Hal ...
1 day ago · Two years later, the press was calling Towne “the hottest writer in Hollywood.” Bookending his Academy Award-winning script for “Chinatown” were Oscar nominations for his screen adaptation of the novel “The Last Detail” (1973), starring Nicholson as one of two Navy lifers escorting a young prisoner to Portsmouth Naval Prison; and for “Shampoo” (1975), which he co-wrote with the ...
2 hours ago · Towne's success came after a long stretch of working in television, including "The Man from U.N.C.L.E" and "The Lloyd Bridges Show," and on low-budget movies for "B" producer Roger Corman.
6 hours ago · Towne wrote Corman's 1960 film The Last Woman on Earth, and starred in his 1961 movie Creature From the Haunted Sea. As Towne's profile rose in the industry, he became well known as a reliable ...
1 day ago · He was still an obscure aspirant when the mid-60s efflorescence of thoughtful screen dramas got underway, but from the time he was thanked as a “Special Consultant” in Warren Beatty’s credit roll for 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” (David Newman and Robert Benton were the credentialed, credited duo), there was heat attached to Towne’s name by insider Hollywood.
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6 hours ago · Along with his partnership with Corman, Towne had a number of strong relationships with actors across his long career. Among them is Chinatown star Jack Nicholson, who Towne first met in an acting class in the '60s, and Tom Cruise, which led to him writing the screenplays for 1996's Mission: Impossible and 2000's Mission: Impossible II.
