 It didn't turn out as he'd hoped. He wrote the screenplay for a Tarzan film but didn't like the eventual production and so put the name of his dog, P.H. Vizak, in the credits. The worldwide Oscars audience later heard the name of Robert Towne's dog read out as a nominee for 1984's Best Adapted Screenplay. As with so much else Robert Towne wrote, that scene couldn't have been scripted better.