His screenplay for the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid won an Oscar. While writing the screenplay for All the President’s Men, the film about Watergate and the reporters who chased down the story, Goldman came up with the line “follow the money” to describe investigative journalism. And then he wrote The Princess Bride and its screenplay about the brave, impetuous, and cunning horsewoman Buttercup who found true love with Wesley, the farm boy who said, “as you wish” as a placeholder for “I love you.”

A b/w photo of William Goldman, smiling. Image source: IMDB

It is the birthday of the writer who coined both commonly quoted phrases in pop culture:
“As you wish” and “Follow the money.”
William Goldman was born on this day in 1931.
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