Danny DeVito Reacts to Death of Oscar-Winning Friend Bo Goldman
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Danny DeVito is mourning a Hollywood peer.
Following the news of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest screenwriter Bo Goldman's death, the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star shared a statement to People, remembering the two-time Oscar winner.
"Working with Bo was a dream. It was an honor knowing him," shared DeVito, who starred in the adaptation of the novel by Ken Kesey.
Director Todd Field, who is Goldman's son-in-law, confirmed to The New York Times that the famed screenwriter passed away at 90 years old. A cause of death has not been shared yet.
Goldman had his first big break in Hollywood after being asked by director Milos Forman to adapt One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the screen. His script, which has shared screenwriting credits with Lawrence Hauben, won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 48th Academy Awards in 1976. The film also gave DeVito his first major film role as Martini, which he had originally played in an off-Broadway production.
After his first Oscar, he won his second four years later for Best Original Screenplay for Melvin and Howard, a dramatic comedy starring Paul Le Mat and Mary Steenburgen.
Besides Cuckoo, Goldman wrote other notable films, including Swing Shift, The Flamingo Kid, Dick Tracy, Scent of a Woman, Meet Joe Black, and The Perfect Storm.
"People call him the screenwriter’s screenwriter, I called him the man with the X-ray ears, because he had a pitch-perfect recall of the nuances of a comment that someone made to someone 50 years prior—he could reproduce the tone, and the reason he remembered it is because the tone told the whole story," recalled Scent of a Woman and Meet Joe Black director Martin Brest to the New York Times.
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