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Aug 8, 2013 · 424. 44K views 10 years ago. Screenwriter Robert Towne discusses his life and career. He is most notable for his Oscar-nominated screenplays of The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), and ...
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Aug 11, 2013 · The Writer's Guild Association sat down with Towne for an almost hour-long interview, in which he talks at length about his childhood, how he fell in love with the cinema, and how Roger Corman helped him get his big break. Hit the jump to watch the interview: In its structure, dialog, and characters (who can beat the iconically mangled Gittes?)
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Mar 21, 2017 · In this intimate interview, produced by The Writer's Guild Association, Towne talks at length about his family, his childhood in San Pedro, and how he fell in love with film.
Screenwriter Robert Towne discusses his childhood in Los Angeles, working on Chinatown, and directing. He is most notable for his Oscar-nominated screenplays...
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- Writers Guild Foundation
Feb 4, 2020 · Book Excerpt: How Writer Robert Towne Crafted ‘Chinatown’ for Jack Nicholson. After tackling a biography about Oscar, Tony and Emmy award-winning Bob Fosse — the book ultimately inspired the...
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Oct 13, 2017 · The Script Lab's Martin Keady explores the fascinating career of Robert Towne, the writer of classics such as Chinatown and The Last Detail.
In a November 5, 2007, interview with MTV, Jack Nicholson claimed that Towne had written the part of Gittes specifically for him. In the same interview, Nicholson also said that Towne had conceived Chinatown as a trilogy, with the third film set in 1968 and dealing in some way with Howard Hughes. [21]
