William Goldman Dies; Oscar Winning Writer Of ‘Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid’ Was 87

deadline ^ | 11/16/2018 | Mike Fleming Jr

[Borges]

He wrote "The Princess Bride" as well. The novel and the screenplay.

[ClearCase_guy]

Not to be confused with William Golding (”Lord of the Flies”).

[Rummyfan]

RIP. He wrote some great screenplays.

[OddLane]

Impressive resume.

[dennisw]

He was a very smart guy who came from nothing. Go read his wiki-pedia.

[D_Idaho]

“Soldier in the Rain” Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Not just a fine screen-writer but also a fine novelist. I enjoyed “The Marathon Man” back when I was a kid.

[MrEdd]

I will stick with “The Good Parts Version”, too much baggage in the novel.

[Boomer]

Death must be in the air. Famous and local people are dropping like flies.

Baby Boomers are/were a big population number so I guess it only makes sense they would start dying in large numbers as well. At 87 was he a boomer or a “greatest gen”? I guess it applies either way.

[Yo-Yo]

"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

[Borges]

In between the two. The Korean War generation. He was in the military at the time but did not go to Korea.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Just a super book. “Until that time, Eustice”

[newfreep]

“Is it safe?”

[ifinnegan]

For some reason we were assigned an early novel if his called The a Temple of Gold in high school English. I remember certain parts if the book. It wasn’t bad but somewhat empty and melodramatic. Marathon Man also was assigned or an option to read also.

He was prolific and talented. Too smart for today’s Hollywood.

I’d recommend his autobiography/memoir called Adventures in the Screen Trade.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade

[SES1066]

"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

As for this scene, I'd say/guess that those are stunt doubles with body armor but that is still a very dangerous stunt (1969) even though you can see the planned safety 'hole' where they are standing. Today, I'd bet that would only be done through CGI.

As for the passing of Mr Goldman, I remember reading "The Princess Bride" (1973) years before the movie (1987) and wondering why there was no movie yet. The movie, when it did come out, was, to me, the BEST adaptation I know of and a wonderful score as well. This is the single instance that I know of where I doff my hat to 'Meathead', Rob Reiner, who directed and coproduced. Perfect casting and Goldman wrote the screenplay as well.

[Mears]

“At 87 was he a boomer or a “greatest gen”? I guess it applies either way.”

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There IS an entire generation between those two that you mentioned.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hell, the fall will probably kill ya.

[Fightin Whitey]

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

Best movie ever.