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Robert Towne Dead at 89: 'Chinatown' Screenwriter Was Hollywood's Best

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    Watching The Beatles and Lucille Ball swing at the fences on daunting deadlines makes these awards entries, one at the Oscars and the other for the Emmys, hugely satisfying.
    FILE - Monica Vitti poses for a portrait at the Venice Film Festival, where she is seen in 1964. Monica Vitti, the versatile blond star of Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and other Italian alienation films of the 1960s, and later a leading comic actress, has died. She was 90. (AP Photo, File)
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    J.K. Simmons, a cast member in "Being the Ricardos," poses at the premiere of the film, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, at The Academy Museum in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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