Screenplay Writer & Novelist William Goldman passes away at 87

*triplexxx* · 11-18-2018, 01:34 PM

Wrote the screenplays for several favorites such as The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, All The President's Men, The Stepford Wives, Marathon Man, Misery, A Few Good Men, Chaplin (1992), Last Action Hero, Extreme Measures, The Chamber, A Bridge Too Far, & many others, also wrote the novels some were based on, won 2 Academy Awards. Also did some theater work, including Blood, Sweat & Stanley Poole along with his also late brother James Goldman. Enjoy heaven, William Goldman, and thank you for your contributions to my childhood entertainment.

11-18-2018, 01:34 PM	#1
triplexxx Mad Scientist Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,819	Screenplay Writer & Novelist William Goldman passes away at 87 Wrote the screenplays for several favorites such as The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, All The President's Men, The Stepford Wives, Marathon Man, Misery, A Few Good Men, Chaplin (1992), Last Action Hero, Extreme Measures, The Chamber, A Bridge Too Far, & many others, also wrote the novels some were based on, won 2 Academy Awards. Also did some theater work, including Blood, Sweat & Stanley Poole along with his also late brother James Goldman. Enjoy heaven, William Goldman, and thank you for your contributions to my childhood entertainment. __________________ Please don't shoot me Mr. Big Mike. I'm too young and good-looking to die, well too young. I got a father, I got a mother, I got a grandmother, I got a little sister...and a little brother this high (raises hand), and a little brother this high (lowers hand), and little brother this high (lowers hand), and a little brother this high (lowers hand), and a little brother this high (lowers hand) and then I got a great big brother this high (slaps gun and runs). "Fright Night" - Three Stooges