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‘Write a line, snort a line’: inside the coke-fuelled battle to make Chinatown
Daily Telegraph· 3 days agoThe stray remark from a Los Angeles beat cop friend lodged in Robert Towne’s brain like a splinter....
Shirley MacLaine, 90, enjoys lunch in Malibu with a friend
Daily Mail· 2 days agoHer acting career spanned seven decades beginning when director Alfred Hitchcock picked her for a...
Robert Towne, Oscar-winning writer of Chinatown, dies aged 89
Daily Echo· 4 days agoThrough his friendships with two of the biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, he wrote or co-wrote some of the signature ...
Robert Towne obituary
The Guardian· 3 days agoRobert Towne, who has died aged 89, wrote a dazzling hat-trick of screenplays that helped define the great American cinema of the 1970s: The Last Detail...
Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, dies aged 89
The Guardian· 4 days agoRobert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, considered one of the greatest screenplays of all time, has died at age 89. Towne, the screenwriter also nominated for his films Shampoo ...