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Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com - 10/5/2009
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
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Screenwriter and filmmaker Robert Towne. FORGET IT BOB, IT’S CHINATOWN Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown ’s 35th anniversary By Alex Simon The haunting trumpet wailing plaintively over the closing credits. The bandage covering star Jack Nicholson ’s nose. The best last line of a movie, ...
Polanski's Lost Alibi
thedailybeast.com - 9/30/2009
Polanski's Lost Alibi
— thedailybeast.com — A retired L.A. prosecutor-the man at the center of the Polanski judicial misconduct allegations-now tells Marcia Clark... that he lied to documentarians, undercutting the director's defense. Among the developments Clark finds: • Polanski's grounds... (more) Polanski's Lost Alibi

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guardian.co.uk - 9/30/2009
Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries
— guardian.co.uk — Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese are latest to add their names to a petition urging... the immediate release of the director from detention in Zurich Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese today added their names to a petition ... (more) Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry ...

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huffingtonpost.com - 9/29/2009
Kim Morgan: Roman Polanski Understands Women: Repulsion
— huffingtonpost.com — Update : After a flurry of comments and emails regarding this post, ranging from appreciation of my... essay, to articulate disagreement, to insane sexist supposedly anti-rape salvos, I've written my take on the Polanski case, at my site . I wrote this ... (more) Kim Morgan: Roman Polanski Understands Women: Repulsion

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10/6 Oscarweb Round-up
In Contention — ... Coens directing “A Serious Man.” [MakingOf] • Nicolas Winding Refn talks “Bronson”’s Pet Shop Boys alterna-score, among other things. [The Playlist] • Dave Karger ponders whether the animated, documentary and foreign-language subdivisions could provide a wild card Best Picture nod. [Oscar Watch] • Robert Towne and “Chinatown,” 35 years later. [The Hollywood Interview] • Scott Bowles sits down with ...

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