Goldman penned the Oscar-winning scripts to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard.
NEW YORK — 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.
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.
After serving three years in the Pacific during World War II, Goldman’s first play, “First Impressions,” was produced when he was 25. It starred Farley Granger and Polly Bergen, but reviews were poor and it was judged a flop. Goldman then toiled for years trying to get his Civil War musical, “Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah,” mounted.
The film’s massive success — it also won Oscars for Forman, Nicholson and Louise Fletcher — was the breakthrough Goldman had long awaited, though he considered it a qualified victory. “Even then I hung my head,” Goldman recounted in 1981. “After all, I had adapted somebody else’s work; was it really mine?”
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