Robert Towne, the screenwriting legend best known ... Towne pulled double duty as writer and director on Personal Best, Tequila Sunrise, Without Limits, and Ask the Dust. Related: Celebrity ...

a renowned return to Hollywood for director Roman Polanski and an Academy Award winner for screenwriter Robert Towne, plus Oscar nominations for stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. But the film ...

Robert Towne, the screenwriter and director whose Oscar-winning work in the 1974 film Chinatown enshrined him in Hollywood history, has died at the age of 89. Towne died at his home on Monday ...

Writers in every generation since screenplays went off the cuff of the director and onto paper have been asked to respond to it. Generally they have done so with wit, shame, and cynicism—the ...

LOS ANGELES – Robert Towne, the Jewish screenwriting ... launched in 1960 as a writer for low-budget producer-director Roger Corman, Towne earned an early reputation in Hollywood as a sought ...

the star and producer of “Bonnie and Clyde,” and the film’s director, Arthur Penn, needed help with a script written by David Newman and Robert Benton. For his contributions, Towne was ...

“If someone’s on YouTube and ready to watch a video of their choosing, but you’re forcing them watch 30 seconds of ads first – that’s a brand imposing their will on the viewer,” said Rob Towne, ...

Screenwriter Robert Twane, who wrote the original script for ‘Tarzan’, was the owner of the much-celebrated Hollywood pooch.

NEW YORK — Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer ... revised and tightened the story and arguing fiercely with the director over the film’s despairing ending — an ending Polanski ...