Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
One year after William Goldman published The Princess Bride (1973), 20th Century Fox decided to make a movie out of it, even though they had no clue how they'd do it. It was actually the mid-1980s before they made good on these plans. (Source)
Four years before writing The Princess Bride, William Goldman won the Academy Award for best screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And if you haven't watched that movie yet, drop what you're doing and watch it now. Not only is it a great movie, but it's intensely handsome. (Source)
In a strange feat, Goldman became the first man ever to be a judge in the Cannes Film Festival and the Miss America Pageant in the same year. (Source)