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William Friedkin, Oscar-winning The Exorcist director, dies before final film’s premiere | Films | Entertainment
William Friedkin, legendary director of The Exorcist, The French Connection and more, has died at the age of 87.
He died on Monday in Los Angeles, which has been confirmed by Chapman University dean Stephen Galloway via Variety.
Galloway is a close friend of Friedkin’s surviving wife Sherry Lansing, 79.
Friedkin unfortunately passed away before his next project, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, was scheduled to premiere next month.
The famed director rose to prominence in the 1970s as part of
Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90
Bo Goldman, one of Hollywood’s most admired screenwriters, who took home Oscars for his work on “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and “Melvin and Howard” (1980), died on Tuesday in Helendale, Calif. He was 90.
A son-in-law, the director Todd Field, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause.
Mr. Goldman was struggling to make a living as a writer until the director Milos Forman saw the script he had written for a project called “Shoot the
Oscar-winning screenwriter of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest dies aged 90 | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Robert ‘Bo’ Goldman has died aged 90, his son-in-law Todd Field confirmed.
The cause of death is currently unknown for the New York-born screenwriter.
After starting his career in Hollywood in 1958, Goldman went on to win numerous accolades for his screenplays.
In 1976 he won the Best Adapted Screenplay for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and bagged the Best Original Screenplay for Melvin and Howard five years later.
Cuckoo’s Nest was his first major film credit after writing
Did the Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi Steal Ideas?
Masihzadeh’s mother flew to Tehran to take care of her. “I am one of those girls who is so outgoing, who likes to travel, who knows so many people,” Masihzadeh told me. But she felt abandoned by most of her friends and colleagues. Soltani said that people attacked her, too, for supporting Masihzadeh. “I think we can really study the mind and culture of Iran through this case,” Soltani told me. “We are always being humiliated throughout the world, and