 and the Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne has passed away at the age of 89. Towne won an Academy Award for the 1974 Jack Nicholson classic Chinatown, and he was nominated two more times in the 70s for the films Shampoo and The Last Detail. Towne was also an uncredited script doctor for more Oscar-winning movies, Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather.