{"id":9364,"date":"2018-11-16T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2018-11-18T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T19:26:34","slug":"william-goldman-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/16\/william-goldman-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"William Goldman Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-46238747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from BBC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\">William Goldman, Butch Cassidy screenwriter, dies at 87<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u1JQbB9O1Iw\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President&#8217;s Men, has died aged 87.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman, who received Oscars for both of those films, also wrote Marathon Man, Magic and The Princess Bride, which he adapted from his own novels.<\/p>\n<p>His memoir Adventures in the Screen Trade is famous for his memorable declaration that &#8220;nobody knows anything&#8221; about the movie business.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a noted &#8220;script doctor&#8221; who worked uncredited on many features.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1931, Goldman started out as a novelist before breaking into movies with 1965 spy caper Masquerade.<\/p>\n<p>He followed that with The Moving Target, also known as Harper, in which Paul Newman played a laconic private eye.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-46238747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at BBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BBC William Goldman, Butch Cassidy screenwriter, dies at 87 \ufeff William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President&#8217;s Men, has died aged 87. Goldman, who received Oscars for both of those films, also wrote Marathon Man, Magic and The Princess Bride, which he adapted from his own novels. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}