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Nov 16, 2021, 5 tweets

#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist, screenwriter (b. 1931)

Soldier in the Rain * No Way to Treat a Lady * Marathon Man * Princess Bride * Magic * Heat * Wild Card. He won Oscars for his screenplays Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969) and All President's Men (1976)

#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist, screenwriter (b. 1931)

Screenplays: Harper (1966) Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969 Oscar) The Hot Rock (1972) The Stepford Wives (1975) Great Waldo Pepper (1975) Marathon Man (1976 his novel) All the President's Men (1976 Oscar)

#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist, screenwriter (b. 1931)

A Bridge Too Far * Magic (his novel) Heat (his novel) * Princess Bride his novel) * Misery * A Few Good Men (consultant) Chaplin * Malice (consultant) Maverick * Dolores Claiborne (consultant) * The Chamber

#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist, screenwriter (b. 1931)

Extreme Measures (1996) * Ghost and Darkness (1996) Good Will Hunting (1997) Absolute Power (1997) The General's Daughter (1999) Hearts in Atlantis (2001) Dreamcatcher (2003) Wild Card (2015 based his novel)

#OTD 2018 – William Goldman, 87, US novelist. (b. 1931)

"Princess Buttercup and dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians, and rodents of unusual size."

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