Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, has died. He was 89.
In a long and storied career, Towne also wrote the scripts for Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail and Shampoo and collaborated with Tom Cruise on Days of Thunder, The Firm and the first two Mission: Impossible films.
Towne died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles, publicist Carrie McClure said in a statement to Variety.
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