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    • Robert Towne, Oscar-winning writer of Chinatown, dies aged 89

      Newham Recorder· 9 hours ago

      ...was credited by name for Nicholson’s macho The Last Detail and Beatty’s sex comedy Shampoo and was immortalised by Chinatown, the 1974 thriller set during the Great Depression...and mood of a classic Los Angeles film noir but cast Gittes’ labyrinthine odyssey across a grander and more...

    • Robert Towne obituary

      Robert Towne obituary

      The Guardian· 2 hours ago

      Robert Towne, who has died aged 89, wrote a dazzling hat-trick of screenplays that helped define the great American cinema of the 1970s: The< ...