Opinion: Remembering the star screenwriter Robert Towne toggle caption Jim Cooper/AP I’ve heard dozens of jokes about screenwriters that I can’t repeat here. In the 1974 film Chinatown, for which he won the Academy Award, an informant calls LA gumshoe Jake Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, and asks, “Are you alone?” The private eye replies, “Isn’t everyone?” Sponsor Message When …
Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for “Chinatown,” has died. Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. Two years later, the press was calling Towne “the hottest writer in Hollywood.” Bookending his Academy Award-winning script for “Chinatown” were Oscar …
