NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay ... helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, ...

Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for “Chinatown,” died Monday at home. He was 89. His publicist Carri McClure announced the news on Tuesday. Towne had yet to ...

Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, is dead at age 89. Towne’s publicist, Carri McClure, revealed he died Monday surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles. She declined ...

Robert Towne, who wrote films including Chinatown and Mission: Impossible, has been remembered as one of Hollywood's greatest screenwriters following his death at the age of 89. Towne won an Oscar ...

Robert Towne, a highly recognized screenwriter, best known for the Oscar-winning film Chinatown plus The Last Detail, Shampoo, Tequila Sunrise and many more has died. He was 89 years old.

Robert Towne, a screenwriter whose mastery of dialogue ... reputation as a “script doctor” to rescue troubled projects, died July 1 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89.