The Edge of Melancholy: Shampoo Elaine Lennon October 2005 Spotlight on Screenwriter Robert Towne I. Roots A number of factors, and people, contributed to the writing of Shampoo: in the late 1960s, I found myself in London. It was as far back as then that I began a first draft of my idea for Shampoo. B...
A Question of Authorship: The Yakuza Elaine Lennon October 2005 Spotlight on Screenwriter Robert Towne Schrader vs Schrader Martin Scorsese read “The Yakuza”, a speculative script sold in a spectacular bidding war in Hollywood in 1974. He wasn't the director Paul Schrader wanted, however; according to Peter B...
