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  1. 5 days ago · The irony is that “Chinatown,” the movie that cemented Towne’s status among his peers and in pop-culture history, had its ending rewritten by director Roman Polanski over the screenwriter ...

  2. 5 days ago · Chinatown was directed by Roman Polanski and starred Nicholson as J.J. "Jake" Gittes, a private detective asked to follow the husband of Evelyn Mulwray (played by Faye Dunaway).

  3. 3 days ago · Chinatown, The Parallax View, McCabe and Mrs Miller, two Missions Impossible, Heaven Can Wait. Many more, sometimes as a script doctor and therefore uncredited. He was nominated four times for an Oscar and won once, for Chinatown, naturally. Check out the list of his films on IMDB. It goes on and on.

  4. 5 days ago · Updated on: July 2, 2024 / 11:53 PM EDT / CBS/AP. Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other acclaimed films whose work on "Chinatown" became a ...

  5. 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....

  6. 5 days ago · 1 of 2 | . FILE - Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel, March 7, 2006, in New York. Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films whose work on “Chinatown” became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, died Monday, July 1, 2024, surrounded by family at his home in ...

  7. 5 days ago · Ironically, Towne battled with Roman Polanski over the director’s dark finale to “Chinatown,” a noir detective story portraying the corruption behind the forming of modern-day Los Angeles. In...