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According to Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, Towne "secretly employed an old college friend named Edward Taylor as his uncredited writing partner for more than 40 years."
Feb 3, 2020 · Many readers may be surprised to learn about Edward Taylor, Robert Towne’s former college roommate. He played a significant role in shaping the script, but did not want any credit.
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Apr 17, 2020 · Wasson tops that story with the stunning revelation that Edward Taylor, a former college roommate and frequent collaborator of Towne’s, contributed extensively to the Chinatown script long before Polanski started putting his fingerprints on it. “Towne referred to Taylor as ‘my editor,’” Wasson writes, “but rarely spoke of his ...
Wasson also reveals something I never heard before: that Towne secretly employed an old college friend named Edward Taylor as his uncredited writing partner for more than 40 years.
Feb 4, 2020 · Wasson is sympathetic to Polanski’s point of view for many reasons, tarring Towne for everything from drug use to sentimentality to relying on an uncredited co-writer, his friend Edward...
Feb 4, 2020 · Throughout the book, Wasson chronicles the stories of four influential men in 1970s Hollywood including Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Robert Evans and Robert Towne during a time when the...
Feb 13, 2020 · Wasson’s reporting is all-encompassing, with the biggest reveal being that screenwriter Towne was aided anonymously by a close friend, Edward Taylor, throughout the writing process. But it...
