Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of 'Shampoo,' 'The Last Detail' and other films whose script for 'Chinatown' became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, has died.
Snag these new Insider Deals before they are goneFILE - 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 Los Angeles, said publicist Carri McClure.
His success came after a long stretch of working in television, including"The Man from U.N.C.L.E" and"The Lloyd Bridges Show," and on low-budget movies for"B" producer Roger Corman. In a classic show business story, he owed his breakthrough in part to his psychiatrist, through whom he met Beatty, a fellow patient.
Influenced by the fiction of Raymond Chandler, Towne resurrected the menace and mood of a classic Los Angeles film noir, but cast Gittes' labyrinthine odyssey across a grander and more insidious portrait of Southern California.
“In it was a chapter called ‘Water, water, water,’ which was a revelation to me. And I thought ‘Why not do a picture about a crime that’s right out in front of everybody,‘” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2009. Wasson also wrote that the movie’s famous closing line originated with a vice cop who had told Towne that crimes in Chinatown were seldom prosecuted.
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