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[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Fw: Entertainment Alert: Screenwriter William Goldman has died at 87. He won Oscars for 'Butch Cassidy' and ‘All the President’s Men.'

 




One of the towering craftsmen of the movies, he won Academy Awards for the convention-flouting western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and the Watergate thriller "All the President's Men" (1976) and adapted his fantasy sendup novel "The Princess Bride" into a generational touchstone in 1987. He died Friday at his home in Manhattan of complications from colon cancer and pneumonia, said his daughter Jenny Goldman.
 
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Entertainment Alert Nov 16, 9:34 AM
 
 
Screenwriter William Goldman has died at 87. He won Oscars for 'Butch Cassidy' and 'All the President's Men.'

One of the towering craftsmen of the movies, he won Academy Awards for the convention-flouting western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and the Watergate thriller "All the President's Men" (1976) and adapted his fantasy sendup novel "The Princess Bride" into a generational touchstone in 1987.

He died Friday at his home in Manhattan of complications from colon cancer and pneumonia, said his daughter Jenny Goldman.

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