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	Robert Towne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American actor, screenwriter and director.
		He is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown (1974), for which he received an Oscar, its sequel, The Two Jakes (1990), and Shampoo (1975), as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.
		Towne reflects on his approach to writing in American Film Foundation's series Screenwriters: Words into Motion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Towne (163 words)

	Robert Towne News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Towne would seem to be the ideal person to bring "Ask the Dust," John Fante's novel about an aspiring writer's dreams and doomed love affairs in 1930s Los Angeles, to the screen.
		Director Robert Towne, left, says Colin Farrell was perfect for the role of Arturo Bandini in "Ask the Dust": "Colin could all the moods of this young, insecure writer who is alternately full of himself and...
		Robert Towne is a screenwriter known for movies such as "Chinatown," "The Last Detail" and "Shampoo." He is best known in Hollywood, however, as a "script doctor," who comes in and polishes, or sometimes...
	www.topix.net /who/robert-towne (418 words)

	Chinatown (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Screenwriter Robert Towne based his famous exchange--Evelyn: "What did you do in Chinatown?" Jake: "As little as possible."--on a joke a LAPD officer friend told him.
		Writer Robert Towne was originally offered $125,000 to write a screenplay for The Great Gatsby (1974), but Towne felt he couldn't better the F.
		Towne was so opposed to this idea that he would argue with Polanski non-stop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinatown_(1974_movie) (1765 words)

	Screentalk Interview - Robert Towne
		Towne was an essential player in arguably the richest period of film history and, even without his other screenwriting successes, would be a living legend in our field with just his script for Chinatown alone.
		The '80s were a time of personal problems that Towne understandably doesn't want to discuss but it would be 1993 before he actually sat down to adapt the novel and it would take a chance call and encounter with a star on the rise to make it happen.
		Towne clearly ran into some conflict with financing and studios reluctant to back a period piece with arguably unlikable characters and an ending where our heroes don't exactly ride off into the sunset together.
	www.screentalk.biz /interviews/roberttowne_interview.php (1322 words)

	Robert Towne: Down in the 'Dust'
		Robert Towne could write the book on Hollywood -- but it would have to be read over his tombstone.
		Towne got a bit despondent when he thought about shooting a night scene where Hayek and Farrell get naked in the surf amid gigantic waves.
		So Towne headed to Sun City, the Las Vegas of South Africa: "There is a vacation spot called The Valley of the Waves where you can surf 9-foot waves that are generated with a machine," he says.
	www.suntimes.com /output/pearlman/sho-sunday-towne12.html (913 words)

	Hollywood Film Festival® - Robert Towne
		Robert Towne has received numerous awards and award nominations honoring his work, including four nominations for WGA Screen Awards, two of which he won, for Chinatown and Shampoo.
		Towne: "He is the writer's writer, singular in the depth, scope and success of his work.
		Towne was born in Los Angeles and raised in San Pedro, where he worked as a tuna fisherman.
	www.hollywoodawards.com /towne (396 words)

	Eye - robert towne - 09.10.98
		Robert Towne's best screenplays are known for moral ambivalence, realistic dialogue and ruthless dissections of cruel or corrupt systems of social authority.
		Well, according to Towne, it is the very fact that relatively little was said in the work that made it a great screenplay and an important influence.
		Still, in Towne's opinion, the desire to continue that fight is as instinctive and unstoppable as nature itself.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.10.98/film/dialogues.html (639 words)

	Robert Towne on Ask the Dust - ComingSoon.net
		Robert Towne is most famous for his Academy Award winning script for Chinatown, which many consider to be a de facto example of a perfect screenplay.
		The film is soaked with period detail and fiery performances, and Towne sat down to discuss Ask the Dust as well as his past, present, and future career.
		Towne: Partly CGI, but it was partly a helicopter shot of LA as it is today sweetened by plates of LA from similar angles in the past blending into CGI.
	comingsoon.net /news/indietopnews.php?id=13404 (2223 words)

	Robert Towne - Hollywood and the great apes
		Robert Towne is the legendary American screenwriter and director who wrote, among other things, that seventies classic film Chinatown.
		Towne spent six months in Australia last year doing rewrites for Tom Cruise on Mission Impossible II which basically meant joining the dots between action sequences devised by Tom Cruise ands John Woo.
		Robert Towne has been in fine anecdotal form this last week, back in Australia to talk to the producers and writers at their weekend conferences.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/atoday/stories/s215249.htm (259 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine: Legend Robert Towne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the race nears its final stages, Towne calls out the cuts, which alternate seamlessly between actual 35mm footage of the race and his own recreation of the event.
		Towne's perfectionism as both a screenwriter and a director is legendary, despite his infrequent efforts from behind the camera.
		Mary provided Towne with more than 200 personal letters from Steve while Bowerman, who would later found the athletic-wear giant Nike based on his homemade running shoe designs, went so far as to volunteer his home as a shooting location.
	www.boxoff.com /feb98story2.html (921 words)

	Towne Country: Film Freak Central Interviews Robert Towne
		Left to his own devices, Towne's best might be the heavily-compromised Tequila Sunrise--and his worst might be his latest, the noir throwback Ask the Dust.
		Perhaps Towne is afraid the jig is up and we'll soon discover that he--like Coppola, come to think of it--is a sentimentalist at heart who, for a while, rode the razored edge with rough company to a glory that's proven elusive to recapture.
		Towne as he puffed on a thin cigar, wreathing himself in a scrim of sweet-smelling smoke that I couldn't help but think of as Mephistophelean.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/rtowneinterview.htm (1773 words)

	Ask The Dust - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If Robert Towne's Ask the Dust is the end result of 30 years of labor to bring John Fante's celebrated novel to the screen, it gravely calls into question Towne's current abilities as both a screenwriter and director.
		Towne's adaptation sheds no new interpretive light on Ask the Dust's literary legacy, and, even on its own terms, this is an anemic romance, undone by awkward performances and flat-footed filmmaking.
		Towne's movie concerns itself largely with Arturo and Camilla's push-pull romance and, as such, it follows a thoroughly conventional arc.
	contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/askthedust (626 words)

	Robert Towne Will Chair Scripter Nomination Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Robert Towne, the Academy-award winning screenwriter who wrote the classics "Chinatown" and "Shampoo," and whose legendary ability as a script doctor rescued or improved numerous other films, will serve as the chair of the nomination committee for the 15th USC Scripter Award.
		Legendary screenwriter Robert Towne is the chair of the selection committee for the 2003 Scripter Awards
		Towne as chair of the Scripter committee," said USC Dean of Libraries and Chief Information Officer Jerry D. Campbell.
	www.usc.edu /isd/pubarchives/now/print/p253.html (246 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		The depth and intensity of Fante's autocritique are missing from writer-director Robert Towne's sexy, sensual, romantic, nostalgic adaptation of the novel, a labor of love he's been trying to realize for years -- he discovered the book while researching Chinatown, his most famous script.
		Towne makes Lopez much more devoted to Bandini than in the novel, and he erases her psychological instability, which in the book lands her in a mental hospital.
		Towne also re-creates southern California during the Depression with an exactitude that's all the more impressive given that he shot the movie in South Africa.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2006/0306/060317.html (934 words)

	Compañía Metalúrgica Mexicana
		Towne was born in 1858 in Ohio and died in 1916; in 1880 he received a degree in mining engineering.
		Towne was president of the Mexican Northern Railroad, which he helped bring to completion in 1890; he also built a smelter at San Luis Potosí in 1892.
		Towne Mines, Inc. was a holding company whose activities were directed by the American Smelting and Refining Company, although Towne's heirs retained title to the properties of Towne Mines, Inc.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /benson/Mex_Archives/Compania_Metalurgica.html (2920 words)

	On the Media
		Robert Towne has written or doctored dozens of scripts including Shampoo, Bonnie & Clyde, Chinatown and The Godfather, and he's on the line from his home in Los Angeles.
		ROBERT TOWNE: Yes, but I, I don't think she had, ever had any hesitation especially with favorites of hers if there was something she didn't like.
		ROBERT TOWNE: And it was the great and unexpected nature of her reviews.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_120101_movie.html (1220 words)

	Ask the Dust: A Conversation with Legendary Screenwriter Robert Towne :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hayek discovered that she was as taken with how Towne made the story come to life (L.A.’s ‘30s-era Bunker Hill district was recreated on a set built in South Africa) as much as she was enthralled by his writing.
		Hollywood.com sat down with Towne on the terrace of a luxury hotel bungalow in Montecito to discuss the film and its stars, his legendary status in Hollywood, his future plans with past collaborators Tom Cruise, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, and the unique distinction of having owned the only Oscar-nominated sheepdog in history.
		Robert Towne: First of all, there is a glamour to the period in general, to L.A. in particular.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/feature/id/3483674 (1396 words)

	Without Limits
		Towne is not a terribly sentimental filmmaker (or, at least, he's never given off much warmth), and these final moments are indeed awkward--overcooked, one might say: the slow-motion, double-exposed images, the cutaways of glassy-eyed Potter, the John Williams music...
		The sequence is textbook directing at its blandest, one of the few times Towne loses confidence in the super-abilities of his cast to say what needs to be said.
		I wish I could write that he is "without limits" as a director, but it is Towne's flair for the obvious that prevents this picture from going that extra mile.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/limits.htm (622 words)

	Riding the New Wave: The Case of Bonnie and Clyde
		Nobody mentioned Robert Towne and yet it was he, not Benton or Newman (who were not allowed on the set of the film), who completely rewrote the screenplay at the behest of Beatty and Penn. It is Towne’s work on this film that created his legendary role as Hollywood’s leading script doctor.
		Although Towne had not yet done a major screenplay, he’d doctored so many scripts that he knew the ins and outs of the film industry, and was viewed as a precocious master at manipulating the system.
		Towne adds a later scene in a hotel room, when Bonnie remarks to Clyde that she thought they were really going someplace.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/06/38/bonnie_and_clyde.html (9828 words)

	SacTicket // News // California dreaming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Director Robert Towne, left, says Colin Farrell was perfect for the role of Arturo Bandini in "Ask the Dust": "Colin could (embody) all the moods of this young, insecure writer who is alternately full of himself and down on himself."
		That's the approach Robert Towne took when it came to his latest film, "Ask the Dust." The movie opens in Sacramento on Friday.
		Ironic too, considering that for Towne one of the story's strongest, most enduring pulls - the element that kept him hanging on for 35 years - was how it reminded him of the city of his youth.
	www.sacticket.com /movies/news/story/14231801p-15054145c.html (992 words)

	MPR: Robert Towne's impossible mission
		Scriptwriter Robert Towne is famed as a "script doctor," who comes in to finish problematic productions.
		Towne is in Minnesota to talk about screenwriting at a special presentation at the Walker Art Center.
		Towne was given the task, if he chose to accept it, of writing a script knitting it all together.
	minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/02/22/roberttowne/?rsssource=1 (276 words)

	eFilmCritic - Robert Towne - From Chinatown to Hollywood.
		In 1982, Towne took the reigns on Personal Best, a critically acclaimed story of a love affair between two female athletes, which bellyflopped at the box office.
		When Towne wasn't allowed to direct Greystoke he credited his dog as the writer of the film, and to this day laments losing this personal project.
		Towne's actually in Australia for two purposes, both related to the Cruiser: to promote the release of Without Limits, which Cruise produced, and to hang out on the set of Mission Impossible II whose final draft Towne had written a few months back.
	efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=87 (1473 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season One
		As he defined it, a Stefano "bear" was any monstrous creature whose purpose was to "induce wonder or tolerable terror or even merely conversation and argument." Before he left the series (a departure that resulted in a generally banal second season), Stefano kept the show and its writers to a clear and reliable formula.
		Robert Culp, one of the series' signature returning players, is a scientist surgically morphed into a horrid alien BEM to frighten Earth's nuclear powers into uniting for peace in "The Architects of Fear," a watershed episode.
		Before writer Robert Towne became known for Polanski's Chinatown, he wrote the Robert Duvall episode "The Chameleon." Other writers who contributed to The Outer Limits included executive producer Leslie Stevens, David Duncan (George Pal's The Time Machine), and Jerry Sohl (Twilight Zone, Star Trek).
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/o/outerlimits_os.shtml (3224 words)

	City Pages - Your Guide to the Stars
		Towne tweaked Nicholson's alienated Five Easy Pieces persona into a mustachioed, bare-chested rowdy who had audiences cheering when he rebutted a redneck bartender's threat with the brandishing of a handgun and a catchphrase: "I am the motherfuckin' Shore Patrol!" At last, Nicholson's Easy Pieces chicken-salad meltdown turned into a touchdown.
		Towne exquisitely plays upon the audience's fascination with and fantasies about the private life of Warren Beatty, who stars as George, a sought-after Beverly Hills hairdresser who cuckolds a nouveau-riche businessman (Jack Warden) by shagging his wife (Lee Grant), mistress (Julie Christie), and daughter (Carrie Fisher).
		Towne is a journeyman, not an innovator--but it's our loss that he stands alone on that Paramount mountaintop, the only guy who owns the Stuff.
	www.citypages.com /databank/27/1315/article14118.asp (1630 words)

	COLIN FARRELL :: FANSITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For director Robert Towne, the answer was landing Colin Farrell and "2 Fast 2 Furious" star Eva Mendes.
		That duo's ready to star in Towne's adaptation of the John Fante novel about a pair of immigrants whose chase of the American dream in 1930s L.A. leads them to each other.
		Towne, who finally gets to direct a film that doesn't involve a sweaty track star, will work around the fact that Farrell is Irish and Mendes of Cuban descent.
	www.colinfarrellfansite.com /filmask.htm (1409 words)

	Chapman University-Media and Digital Arts Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Known as a “writer’s writer,” Towne won the Academy Award for Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, and was also nominated for The Last Detail, Shampoo (which he co-wrote with Warren Beatty), and Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan (which he wrote under a pseudonym).
		Towne is known as singular in the depth, scope, and success of his work.
		Towne and Chapman School of Film and Television Dean Bob Bassett share a common mentor in Dr. Fred Sontag, their professor of philosophy at Pomona College.
	ftv.chapman.edu /news/detail.cfm?id=815 (398 words)

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