Pfeiffer then appeared as chic restauranteuse Jo Ann Vallenari in Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) opposite Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell, but experienced creative and personal differences with director Robert Towne, who later described her as the " most difficult " actress he has ever worked with.

Towne has also a " stellar reputation " in the motion-picture industry as an uncredited script doctor, who has worked in such a capacity for The Godfather, Bonnie and Clyde, The Parallax View, The Rock and dozens of other Hollywood films.

Towne has framed several of his signature films as elaborate melodramas.

Towne has also written for television, including an acclaimed episode of the 1962-1963 CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show entitled " My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy ," with starring roles for Jeff Bridges and Gary Lockwood.

On occasion, he has acted on screen, as in 1960's Roger Corman sci-fi film Last Woman on Earth, which Towne also wrote.

Fillmore has a classic " turn of the century " downtown architecture, a one-screen theater ( the Fillmore Towne Theatre ), a historic train depot ( the Fillmore and Western Railway ), a much photographed city hall, and many unique shops and businesses, including a local winery operation.

The northeastern section of the township is heavily industrialized on its western end ( west of Wood Road ), but since 2002 this section has become the ' downtown ' of Lansing Township with the construction of the Eastwood Towne Center, one of the largest shopping malls in Metropolitan Lansing, and the subsequent creation of the Lansing Township Downtown Development Authority to capture state and national funds for development.

The city has two elementary schools, Ann Smith Elementary and Highland Elementary ; one middle school, Olde Towne Middle School ; and one high school, Ridgeland High School.

* McKenzie Towne is a New Urbanist development which commenced in 1995 by Carma Developers LP in Calgary and has an expected completion of 2011.

Fayetteville Towne Center Shopping Plaza has the greatest number of stores and restaurants in the Town of Manlius.

A small yard located within the nearby Fairfax Towne Center has been preserved to mark the area where Robert E. Lee and his troops marched across to get to the Ox Hill Battlefield.

Honey Harbour has a small grocery store (" Towne Centre "), a post office, a liquor store, a bakery, a Catholic church and school, a public elementary school, several small craft stores, a large resort ( the " Delawana Inn ") and several marinas.

A rental of landrake manor made in 1652 says ‘ there was a Fayre keept yeerely within the Towne of St Germans upon the Last Tursday in Maye ’ but notes that the fair has decayed and ended under Cromwells Government.

Each direction has one truck lane for climbing uphill ( mile 12 to 13 northbound, mile 10 to 9 southbound ), two extended acceleration lanes ( north from Towne Lake Parkway and south from Marietta Highway ), and two auxiliary lanes ( connecting Bells Ferry and Chastain Roads ).

The Towne Coupe is shorter and lighter than the 2 + 2 and has slightly more rear head room.

Among the rejected ideas for " Beverly Hills Cop III " included a Robert Towne screenplay idea ( one in which Axel Foley has to deal with his celebrity cop status ), a scenario teaming Eddie Murphy with Sean Connery as a Scotland Yard detective, and another Axel-in-London idea where his Scotland Yard counterpart would have been played by John Cleese.

) Towne Park has a clubhouse, pool and is centrally located in Stuart, Florida on SE Central Parkway, near SE Federal Highway ( U. S. 1 ).

( This was not the first time that hurricanes have made landfall near Stuart, but each time Towne Parke has escaped with little or no damage to the buildings.

McKenzie Towne has been developing since 1995 and has approximately three years of residential development left to complete.

The Times called him " the most artful and subtle screenwriter Hollywood has had since Robert Towne.

Towne wants to become an artist, a goal which he has kept secret from even Elizabeth.

When Rogers comes to town in the summer of 1761, he greets Towne as a long-lost friend ... and asks Towne to be his best man, as he has proposed to Elizabeth, whom he met through fellow Mason Rev.

The first Birmingham library had been established by 1642, the same year that Nathaniel Nye – the town's first known scientist – published his New Almanacke and Prognostication calculated exactly for the faire and populous Towne of Birmicham in Warwickshire.

Alexander Chalmers originated the now-accepted argument that his wife was the widow of William Knel, an actor with the Queen's Men who had been killed in 1587 a fight with John Towne, a fellow actor.

There had also been a plan to put only a half-diamond exit on the north side of the road, using Woodstock Parkway on the east side and a new access road on the west side to connect it to Towne Lake, which would then have its ramps on the north side removed.

The probable reason that Atkinson made an assignment of copyright to Towne is that his " New Psychology " books had initially been serialized in Towne's magazine, where he was a freelance writer from 1912 at least through 1914.

He was the father-in-law of writer-director Robert Towne, who married his oldest daughter Julie.

The British producer Graham King revealed that he had hired Towne to write a remake of The Battle of Britain in a December 2011 interview.

Robert Towne and Beatty provided uncredited contributions to the script ; Beatty also produced the film.

Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown ( 1974 ), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.

Towne co-wrote the film 8 Million Ways to Die using the alias David Lee Henry.

In 2006, Towne was the subject of artist Sarah Morris's film, Robert Towne.

In the same interview, Nicholson also revealed that Towne had conceived Chinatown as a trilogy and that the third film was to be set in 1968 and deal in some way with Howard Hughes.

The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jack Nicholson, with a screenplay adapted by Robert Towne from a novel of the same name by Daryl Ponicsan.

Towne occasionally visited Ashby's house to check in and did not like the pacing of the film.

The film was adapted by David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr and an uncredited Robert Towne from the 1970 novel by Loren Singer.

Aside from Shampoo, where he was by all accounts a creative adjunct to Beatty and Towne, Ashby's most commercially successful film was the Vietnam War drama Coming Home.

The film was directed by Sydney Pollack and featured Robert Mitchum, with screenplay rewritings by Robert Towne of Chinatown fame.

Shampoo is a 1975 satirical film written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby.

Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) is an American crime thriller film written and directed by Robert Towne.

The film, only the second ( after Personal Best ) to be both written and directed by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Towne, was commercially successful, making over $ 100 million at the box office worldwide, but critical reception was mixed.

One reviewer was of the opinion that, " perhaps because the elements were so irresistible — Robert Towne directing Gibson, Russell and Pfeiffer in a California crime film — an aura of disappointment settled over Tequila Sunrise, no matter how engaging, and profitable, it turned out to be.

Director Robert Towne wanted Dale McKussic ( Mel Gibson ) to go up in smoke at the end of the film, but one of the conditions Warner Bros. set was that he must live.

Screenwriter Robert Towne was slated to direct this film based on his screenplay, but he was sacked following the box-office failure of his directorial debut, Personal Best.

The film opens in the year 1759 with the arrival of Langdon Towne ( Robert Young ) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Originally, producer Robert Evans was to play the " second " Jake but Towne, who was going to direct the film at that time, did not think he was the right choice and fired him.

The screenplay is by Robert Towne, who also appears in the film billed as " Edward Wain ".

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

In 1939, Warner Bros. released a film adaptation, The Adventures of Jane Arden, with a storyline in which Jane Arden ( Rosella Towne ) goes undercover to expose a gang of jewel smugglers.