Tag: Robert Towne
March 19, 2015 /

The destruction of the land and that community was something that I thought was really hideous. It was doubly significant because it was the way Los Angeles was formed, really.” –AFI interview with Robert Towne

EXT. CITY HALL – MORNING Already shimmering with heat. A drunk blows his nose with his fingers into the fountain at the foot of the steps.   Gittes, impeccably dressed, passes the drunk on the way up the stairs.   INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERS Former Mayor SAM BAGBY is speaking. Behind…

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March 27, 2013 /

LOS ANGELES LIGHT

George Kaplan, a friend writes from somewhere in the British Isles: I was looking for somewhere to put this and well this piece seems not totally inappropriate because the extract at least begins with a quotation about L.A.’s winter light – “Robert Towne, who wrote the L.A. classics Chinatown and…

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