Bo Goldman, who penned the Oscar-winning scripts to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard” and whose textured, empathy-rich screenplays made him one of Hollywood’s finest writers, has died. He was 90.
Goldman died Tuesday in Helendale, Calif., his son-in-law, the director Todd Field, said. No details on the cause of death were given.
Those screenplays and more – the family drama “Shoot the Moon”; “The Rose,” with Bette Midler; “Scent of a Woman,” with Al Pacino – made Goldman a widely considered master of screenwriting along with contemporaries like Billy Wilder and Paddy Chayefsky. Goldman said he thought of himself as a dramatist who happened to write screenplays. “I’m a screenplaywright,” he said.
“My father was a ghetto kid who went from rags to riches, then lost everything, and having committed my life to mimic him in nothing, I am convinced I will equal him in this one respect: his ending, a downward spiral into two dingy rooms in a residential hotel and bankruptcy,” Goldman wrote in Attending Princeton, Goldman wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club, a theater troupe. He dropped the second “b” in Bob after a college paper accidentally left it off. He liked Bo and kept the name.
“There’s a line in ‘Melvin and Howard,’ where Mary says of Melvin, ‘He can’t make any money and it makes him feel bad.’” Goldman later recounted. “I couldn’t support my family and I felt lousy about it.” “Shoot the Moon” was eventually made, directed by Alan Parker in 1982 and starring Diane Keaton and Albert Finney. But first Goldman wrote 1979′s “The Rose,” starring Midler in a loose adaptation of Janis Joplin’s life.
Goldman, who lived in Rockport, Maine, lost a son, Jesse, in 1981 and his wife died in 2017. He is survived by four daughters, a son, seven grand children and three great-grandchildren.
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