Towne - who won an Oscar for Chinatown - died Monday at his LA home. The screenwriter, 89, was surrounded by family when he passed. Towne's publicist would not comment on his cause of deathOscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne has died at the age of 89.
The rare 'auteur' among screenwriters, Towne managed to bring a highly personal and influential vision of Los Angeles onto the screen. As Beatty worked on Bonnie and Clyde, he brought in Towne for revisions of the Robert Benton-David Newman script and had him on the set while the movie was filmed in Texas.
Towne's publicist Carri McClure confirmed Tuesday that he passed away Monday at his Los Angeles home surrounded by family; seen in 2015 Clues accumulate into a timeless detective tale, and lead helplessly to tragedy, summed up by the one of the most repeated lines in movie history, words of grim fatalism a devastated Gittes receives from his partner Lawrence Walsh : 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.'
'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. The back story of Chinatown has itself become a kind of detective story, explored in producer Robert Evans´ memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture; in Peter Biskind's East Riders, Raging Bulls, a history of 1960s-1970s Hollywood, and in Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye, dedicated entirely to 'Chinatown.'
'Robert Towne once said that Chinatown is a state of mind,' Wasson wrote. 'Not just a place on the map in Los Angeles, but a condition of total awareness almost indistinguishable from blindness. Dreaming you're in paradise and waking up in the dark - that's Chinatown. Thinking you've got it figured out and realizing you're dead - that's Chinatown.' Chinatown was directed by Roman Polanski and starred Jack Nicholson as J.J.
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