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Nov 16, 2018 · William Goldman had come to screenwriting by accident after actor Cliff Robertson read one of his books, "No Way to Treat a Lady," and thought it was a film treatment. After he hired the young ...
William Goldman (b. 1931) is an Academy Award–winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels. His first novel, The Temple of Gold (1957), was followed by the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961).
Nov 16, 2018 · Goldman was an Oscar winner, a generous mentor, a hard-nosed poet who mastered the muck of the Hollywood machine—the man who wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, Marathon Man (the novel and the screenplay), The Princess Bride (same), fixed up a dozen scripts for each one he put his name on, and memorialized the whole cinematic era in his engaging, inimitable way in those priceless memoirs.
William Goldman was an Academy Award–winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels. His first novel, The Temple of Gold (1957), was followed by the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961). He went on to write the screenplays for many acclaimed films, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ...
Dec 30, 2018 · Only then did he remember that it was invented, by All the President’s Men screenwriter William Goldman. Goldman, who wrote novels and plays in addition to screenplays, died in November at age 87.
Nov 19, 2018 · By A.O. Scott. Nov. 19, 2018. William Goldman’s first novel, “The Temple of Gold,” was published in 1957. In the part of the timeline of American cultural history devoted to expressions of ...
May 21, 2018 · William Goldman by Richard Andersen, Boston, Twayne, 1979. William Goldman is a successful novelist, film scenarist, playwright, critic, and children's book author who focuses much of his attention on the illusions by which men and women live.
