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5 days ago · "The Two Jakes," the long-awaited sequel to "Chinatown," was a commercial and critical disappointment when released in 1990 and led to a temporary estrangement between Towne and Nicholson.
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5 days ago · The Two Jakes, the long-awaited sequel to Chinatown, was a commercial and critical disappointment when released in 1990 and led to a temporary estrangement between Towne and Nicholson.
5 days ago · "The Two Jakes," the long-awaited sequel to "Chinatown," was a commercial and critical disappointment when released in 1990 and led to a temporary estrangement between Towne and Nicholson.
1 day ago · Nicholson has directed three films, Drive, He Said (1971), Goin' South (1978), and The Two Jakes (1990). He is one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards and one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in films made in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s (alongside Michael Caine).
5 days ago · During this period, Towne penned a diverse slate of films, including Days of Thunder (1990), The Two Jakes (1990), The Firm (1993), Love Affair (1994), Mission Impossible (1995) and MI:2 (2000). Towne’s latest puts him behind the camera and the pen once again, with his long-awaited adaptation of John Fante’s classic novel Ask the Dust.
6 days ago · Robert Towne, the screenwriter as superstar whose Oscar-winning work on the 1974 classic Chinatown is widely recognized as the gold standard for movie scripts, has died. He was 89.
5 days ago · The Two Jakes, his (again, much laboured-over) Chinatown sequel, should have been his fourth – though Towne withdrew after the shoot collapsed following a blazing row with Evans, who insisted...
