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6 days ago · Robert Higgs, cleveland.com. NEW YORK — Robert Towne, an Oscar-winning screenplay writer behind some of Hollywood’s greatest films, has died. He was 89 years old. His publicist, Carri McClure ...
2 days ago · NPR's Scott Simon remembers screenwriter Robert Towne, who died this week. Towne won an Oscar for "Chinatown," which is considered one of the best screenplays in American cinema.
5 days ago · Robert Towne, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter who wrote the 1974 classic Chinatown during a career that lasted more than five decades, is dead. He was 89.
6 days ago · Robert Towne, the screenwriter known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir mystery film Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, has died at the age of 89.
2 days ago · His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. NPR's Scott Simon remembers screenwriter Robert Towne, who died this week. Towne won an Oscar for "Chinatown," which is considered one of the best screenplays in American cinema.
5 days ago · Robert Towne, a screenwriter whose mastery of dialogue and insightful storytelling helped define the New Hollywood wave in the 1970s that included the Oscar-winning “Chinatown,” and who also...
2 days ago · But Robert Towne, who died this week at the age of 89, was something rare: a star screenwriter. “There are no novels or plays I’m itching to write and there never have been,” he wrote for Esquire magazine in 1991.
