{"id":13360,"date":"2024-07-02T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2024-07-02T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T03:44:29","slug":"robert-towne-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/02\/robert-towne-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Towne Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/07\/robert-towne-dead-chinatown-screenwriter-1236000262\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Towne Dies: Oscar-Winning \u2018Chinatown\u2019 Screenwriter Was 89<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/epedersen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erik Pedersen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Writer Speaks: Robert Towne Part 1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P6r7exIYOo8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/robert-towne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Towne<\/a>, who won an Oscar for his\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chinatown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinatown<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>original screenplay and was nominated for his\u00a0<em>The Last Detail, Shampoo\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Greystoke\u00a0<\/em>scripts, died Monday at his home. He was 89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towne also earned BAFTA, Golden Globe and WGA awards for\u00a0<em>Chinatown,\u00a0<\/em>the L.A.-set 1974 thriller starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. It was one of three Writers Guild Awards he won during his career, along with\u00a0<em>Shampoo\u00a0<\/em>and the drama series\u00a0<em>Mad Men.<\/em>\u00a0He also was nominated for\u00a0<em>The Last Detail<\/em>\u00a0(1973) and\u00a0<em>Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes<\/em>\u00a0(1985). He was honored with teh guild\u2019s Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/07\/robert-towne-dead-chinatown-screenwriter-1236000262\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Robert Towne Dies: Oscar-Winning \u2018Chinatown\u2019 Screenwriter Was 89 By\u00a0Erik Pedersen Robert Towne, who won an Oscar for his\u00a0Chinatown\u00a0original screenplay and was nominated for his\u00a0The Last Detail, Shampoo\u00a0and\u00a0Greystoke\u00a0scripts, died Monday at his home. He was 89. Towne also earned BAFTA, Golden Globe and WGA awards for\u00a0Chinatown,\u00a0the L.A.-set 1974 thriller starring Jack Nicholson and Faye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}