William Goldman

Scott Rochat: Another Story

Staff WriterNovember 18, 2018 GMT

Everyone leaves, sooner or later. But I'd always kind of hoped William Goldman would be an exception.

If you watched movies at all, you know who William Goldman is. Heck, you've probably quoted him a hundred times without thinking about it.

William Goldman, Oscar winner for ‘Butch Cassidy,’ has died

By JAKE COYLENovember 17, 2018 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — William Goldman, the screenwriter and Hollywood wise man who won Academy Awards for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men" and summed up the mystery of making a box office hit by declaring "Nobody knows anything," has died...

William Goldman, Oscar winner for ‘Butch Cassidy,’ has died

By JAKE COYLENovember 16, 2018 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — William Goldman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and Hollywood wise man who won Academy Awards for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men" and summed up the mystery of making a box office hit by declaring "Nobody knows anything," has died.

Not inconceivable that ‘Princess Bride’ star in S.A. Saturday

Deborah MartinAugust 22, 2017 GMT

Think rescuing a maiden named Buttercup from a heavily guarded fortress while being mostly dead is tough?

Try making a movie about it.

As actor Cary Elwes tells it, simply getting the film adaptation of William Goldman’s much-loved novel “The Princess Bride” off the ground was very nearly — to borrow a much-quoted line — “inconceivable.”