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Robert Towne

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Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz,Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind page 30, 1999 Bloomsbury edition November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. [1]

90 relations: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards, Actor, Alfred Hitchcock, Ask the Dust, Ask the Dust (film), Bonnie and Clyde (film), Breaking Point (1963 TV series), British Academy of Film and Television Arts, California, Chadwick School, Charlie Hunnam, Chinatown (1974 film), Cisco Pike, Claremont, California, Colin Farrell, Creature from the Haunted Sea, Crimson Tide (film), Days of Thunder, Deal of the Century, Drive, He Said, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Edgar Award, Film director, Film producer, Frantic (film), Golden Globe Award, Graham King, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Hal Ashby, Heaven Can Wait (1978 film), History of the Jews in Romania, History of the Jews in Russia, John Fante, John Payne (actor), Julie Payne (actress, born 1940), Last Woman on Earth, Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, List of Academy Award nominees presented under false names, Los Angeles, Love Affair (1994 film), Mad Men, Marathon Man (film), Melodrama, Mission: Impossible (film series), Mission: Impossible (film), Mission: Impossible 2, Nantucket Film Festival, New Hollywood, ..., Orca (film), Palos Verdes Peninsula, Personal Best (film), Peter Biskind, Pomona College, Reds (film), Roger Corman, Rolling Hills, California, Roman Polanski, Salma Hayek, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Sarah Morris, Screenwriter, Shampoo (film), Swing Shift (film), Tequila Sunrise (film), The 39 Steps (1935 film), The Firm (1993 film), The Godfather, The Last Detail, The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Missouri Breaks, The New Centurions, The New York Times, The Outer Limits (1963 TV series), The Parallax View, The Restless Gun, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Two Jakes, The Yakuza, The Young Racers, Tom Cruise, Tough Guys Don't Dance (film), Villa Rides, Western (genre), Without Limits, Writers Guild of America Award, 28th Moscow International Film Festival, 8 Million Ways to Die. Expand index (40 more) »

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust is the most popular novel of Italian-American author John Fante, first published in 1939 and set during the Great Depression-era in Los Angeles.

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Ask the Dust (film)

Ask the Dust is a 2006 American-German film based on the book Ask the Dust by John Fante.

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Bonnie and Clyde (film)

Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.

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Breaking Point (1963 TV series)

Breaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April 27, 1964, continuing in rebroadcasts until September 7.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Chadwick School

Chadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Charlie Hunnam

Charles Matthew Hunnam (born 10 April 1980) is an English actor.

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Chinatown (1974 film)

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film, directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.

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Cisco Pike

Cisco Pike is a 1972 drama written and directed by Bill L. Norton.

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Claremont, California

Claremont is a city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of downtown Los Angeles.

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Colin Farrell

Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor.

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Creature from the Haunted Sea

Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman.

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Crimson Tide (film)

Crimson Tide is a 1995 American submarine film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.

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Days of Thunder

Days of Thunder is a 1990 American sports action drama film released by Paramount Pictures, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Tony Scott.

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Deal of the Century

Deal of the Century is a 1983 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin and starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigourney Weaver.

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Drive, He Said

Drive, He Said is a 1971 American motion picture released by Columbia Pictures.

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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood is a book written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon & Schuster in 1998.

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Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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Frantic (film)

Frantic is a 1988 American-French mystery thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Graham King

Graham King, (born 19 December 1961) is a British film producer.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 British Technicolor adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912).

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Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.

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Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American fantasy-comedy film co-directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry.

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History of the Jews in Romania

The history of the Jews in Romania concerns the Jews both of Romania and of Romanian origins, from their first mention on what is present-day Romanian territory.

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History of the Jews in Russia

Jews in the Russian Empire have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world.

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John Fante

John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an Italian-American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

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John Payne (actor)

John Howard Payne (May 23, 1912 – December 6, 1989) was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun.

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Julie Payne (actress, born 1940)

Julie Anne Payne (born July 10, 1940) is an American actress in television and films from 1959 to 1967.

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Last Woman on Earth

Last Woman on Earth (often referred to as The Last Woman On Earth, but it appeared without The in the film's actual title card) is a 1960 American science fiction film that was produced and directed by Roger Corman.

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Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

The Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (also known as the Screen Laurel Award) is a lifetime achievement award given by the Writers Guild of America West.

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List of Academy Award nominees presented under false names

There have been several fictional people or people using false names nominated for actual Academy Awards, in several cases because the actual winners were blacklisted at the time.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Love Affair (1994 film)

Love Affair is a 1994 American romantic drama film and a remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

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Mad Men

Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television.

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Marathon Man (film)

Marathon Man is a 1976 American suspense-thriller film directed by John Schlesinger.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Mission: Impossible (film series)

Mission: Impossible is a series of action spy films based on the television series of the same name, produced by and starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an agent of the fictional Impossible Missions Force (IMF).

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Mission: Impossible (film)

Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by and starring Tom Cruise.

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Mission: Impossible 2

Mission: Impossible 2 (also stylized as Mission: Impossible II and abbreviated as M:I-2) is a 2000 American action spy film directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer.

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Nantucket Film Festival

The Nantucket Film Festival is a film festival founded in 1996 which focuses on screenwriting.

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New Hollywood

New Hollywood, sometimes referred to as the "American New Wave," refers to a movement in American film history from the mid-to-late 1960s to the early 1980s when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in the United States.

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Orca (film)

Orca (also known as Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 American disaster horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling and Will Sampson.

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Palos Verdes Peninsula

The Palos Verdes Peninsula (from Spanish Palos Verdes: Green sticks) is a landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.

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Personal Best (film)

Personal Best is a 1982 film centered on a group of women trying to qualify for the American track-and-field team bound for the 1980 Olympic Games.

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Peter Biskind

Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist, former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996.

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Pomona College

Pomona College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States.

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Reds (film)

Reds is a 1981 American epic drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty.

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor.

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Rolling Hills, California

Rolling Hills is an affluent city on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in Los Angeles County, California.

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Roman Polanski

Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek Pinault (born Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966), is a Mexican and American film actress, producer, and former model.

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San Pedro, Los Angeles

San Pedro is a community within the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967) is an American artist.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Shampoo (film)

Shampoo is a 1975 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, and directed by Hal Ashby.

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Swing Shift (film)

Swing Shift is a 1984 American romantic drama war film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn with Kurt Russell.

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Tequila Sunrise (film)

Tequila Sunrise is a 1988 American crime thriller film written and directed by Robert Towne.

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The 39 Steps (1935 film)

The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.

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The Firm (1993 film)

The Firm is a 1993 American legal thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook and David Strathairn.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name.

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The Last Detail

The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, and Carol Kane.

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The Lloyd Bridges Show

The Lloyd Bridges Show is an American anthology drama series produced by Aaron Spelling, which aired on CBS from September 11, 1962 to May 28, 1963, starring and hosted by Lloyd Bridges.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fiction television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC.

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The Missouri Breaks

The Missouri Breaks is a 1976 American epic western film starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson.

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The New Centurions

The New Centurions is a 1972 Eastmancolor crime drama Panavision film based on the novel by policeman turned author Joseph Wambaugh.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)

The Outer Limits is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1963 to 1965 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on Mondays.

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The Parallax View

The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, and starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss.

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The Restless Gun

The Restless Gun is an American Western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War.

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The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia is a 1964 American International Pictures horror film, produced in the UK by Alta Vista Productions.

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The Two Jakes

The Two Jakes is a 1990 American neo-noir mystery film, and the sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown.

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The Yakuza

The Yakuza is a 1974 Japanese-American neo-noir gangster film directed by Sydney Pollack, written by Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader, and Robert Towne.

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The Young Racers

The Young Racers is a 1963 film directed by Roger Corman based on the Formula One races in Europe.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)

Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 crime mystery comedy-drama film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name.

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Villa Rides

Villa Rides is a 1968 American Technicolor western war film in Panavision starring Yul Brynner (in toupee) in the title role and Robert Mitchum as an American adventurer and pilot of fortune.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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Without Limits

Without Limits is a 1998 biographical sports film.

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Writers Guild of America Award

The Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievements in film, television, radio and video game (added in 2008) writing, including both fiction and non-fiction categories, have been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949.

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28th Moscow International Film Festival

The 28th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 23 June to 2 July 2006.

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8 Million Ways to Die

8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American crime film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and, in a leading role for the first time, Andy Garcia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Towne

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