Bo Goldman, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Melvin and Howard (1980), died Tuesday in Helendale, Calif. He was 90. Director Todd Field, his son-…
Goldman later worked with director Martin Brest on two other acclaimed films, Born in New York City, Goldman attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1953.
While writing for the college newspaper as Bob Goldman, a typesetter accidentally left off the second “b” in his name. Goldman liked the mistake so much he later legally changed his name to Bo. Three years in the Army followed college, and he then became an assistant to Jule Styne, the composer. He also wrote patter and other tidbits for live television programs., a musical based on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” that Styne’s company produced.Goldman used the late 1960s and early 1970s to write his first screenplay,, based on his observations of his contemporaries’ marriages in crisis. Foreman read it and that led to the “Cuckoo’s Nest” assignment.
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