Carole Eastman, a highly regarded screenwriter best known for the groundbreaking 1970 film “Five Easy Pieces,” Jack Nicholson’s first starring vehicle, has died. She was 69. Eastman ...

Carole Eastman, a highly regarded screenwriter best known for the groundbreaking 1970 movie “Five Easy Pieces,” Jack Nicholson’s first starring vehicle, has died. She was 69. Ms. Eastman ...

He was 79. Eastman, the brother of the late “Five Easy Pieces” screenwriter Carole Eastman, died July 3 of complications from heart disease at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City ...

and Carole Eastman’s still dazzling, still wise and worldly screenplay. You don’t have to be a twenty-something would-be intellectual punching a steel mill time clock in 1970 to appreciate the ...

Carole Eastman, co-screenwriter of “Five Easy Pieces,” died Feb. 13 in Los Angeles of a long-term illness. She was 69. Eastman, who often wrote under the name Adrien Joyce, was nominated for ...