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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 ...
Nov 16, 2018 · William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 15, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976), about journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon for the Washington Post. Both ...
Nov 16, 2018 · William Goldman once said, “The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.” Coulda fooled him. Goldman wrote so many words—16 novels, three memoirs, magazine columns, 23 produced screenplays ...
Nov 16, 2018 · William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, has died aged 87. Goldman, who received Oscars for both of those films, also wrote Marathon Man ...
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 · William Goldman, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ Dies at 87. By. Richard Natale, Brent Lang. AP Photo/Pendergrass. William Goldman, who won Oscars for his ...
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.
