* April 1 – Kings Towne on the River Hull ( Kingston upon Hull ) is granted city status by Royal Charter of King Edward I of England.

Charleston's name is derived from Charles Towne, named after King Charles II of England.

Robert Towne ( born Robert Bertram Schwartz ; November 23, 1934 ) is an American screenwriter and director.

Towne told The New York Times that Tequila Sunrise is " a movie about the use and abuse of friendship.

Towne's daughter ( with actress Julie Payne ) is Katharine Towne.

There is a ferry boat that takes riders back and forth across the water between Downtown Norfolk and Olde Towne Portsmouth.

The Crossroads of America Council is served by Jaccos Towne Lodge # 21, Order of the Arrow.

Glendale is home to the popular Arrowhead Towne Center mall in the northwest part of the city.

The elevation of Clovis is approximately above mean sea datum According to the Flood Hazard Boundary Map produced by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, part of Clovis is within the 100-year flood zone, such as some of the area near the Clovis Towne Center.

The Bremen Towne Festival is an annual event held in mid October each year and is sponsored by the Bremen Junior Woman's Club.

Wichita is also home to two major shopping malls: Towne East Square and Towne West Square, on opposite ends of town, and each managed by Simon Property Group.

The Slidell Amtrak station is situated on Front Street in Olde Towne Slidell, with a beautiful view of one of the city's parks, Heritage, which is complete with playground equipment for younger children and open spaces for people to play football.

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 reclaimed land is the site of the current post office, library, and Olde Towne Road.

The original eight square block area is now referred to as " Old Towne Fenton ".

Wayne is home to Willowbrook Mall, Wayne Hills Mall, Wayne Towne Center, High Mountain Park Preserve and William Paterson University.

Wurtsboro is notable for a store in the business district called the Canal Towne Emporium.

It is the location of the Kenwood Towne Centre and other businesses, a major shopping center for the Cincinnati area.

Grand Lake Towne is a town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States.

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One such title, for which Atkinson is credited as the author, with the copyright internally assigned to Towne, is The Psychology of Salesmanship, published in 1912.

The screenplay by Robert Towne was based upon the tale " Ligeia " by American author Edgar Allan Poe.

Robert Towne expressed his disappointment in The Two Jakes in many interviews.

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.

Fayetteville Towne Center Shopping Mall include Target Corporation | Target, Kohl's, Bonefish Grill, Carrabbas, Panera Bread, and many other stores and restaurants.

The decision was made to renovate Lake Forest Park Towne Centre and it now spans 18 acres and offers many shopping and dining options along with entertainment and serves as a community center for the city.

Among the many significant watercolor artists of this period were Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, Thomas Hearne and John Warwick Smith.

Mckenzie Towne boasts many recreational features, including: the McKenzie Town Hall containing the staff of the McKenzie Towne Council ( which is the area homeowners association ), a gymnasium, meeting and banquet facilities, and a private outdoor park area ; a network of paved pathways and green spaces ; a fountain and splash park ; and numerous ponds also complement McKenzie Towne.

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

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.

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

Towne has been announced as writer-director of The 39 Steps, a 2011 remake of the 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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.