 Doggett became the first Democratic lawmaker on Capitol Hill to call for Biden to end his reelection bid. Award-winning screenwriter Robert Towne has died at the age of 89. NPR's Ned Ulaby says Towne won an Oscar for his screenplay of the 1974 movie Chinatown. Robert Towne created the characters and wrote their words. In Chinatown, Jack Nicholson played a hard-boiled detective trying to pin a crime on an uncooperative widow.