William Goldman Articles

MARATHON MAN (1976) Direction: John Schlesinger Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Richard Bright, Marc Lawrence Screenplay: William Goldman; from his own novel Oscar Movies Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man The deadliest sin a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy movie can commit is to — unintentionally — have us root for the evildoer. That is exactly what director John Schlesinger (Darling; Midnight Cowboy; [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax & GANGS OF NEW YORK Part I Back to Robert Wise (right) and Gangs of New York: The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned [...]