You covered it all, including novels and plays for stage and screen.
For those with a taste for action/adventure, you granted "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "The Great Waldo Pepper" and "The Ghost and the Darkness". For those into raw thrillers, you supplied solid adaptations of your novel, "Marathon Man", Ira Levin's "The Stepford Wives" and the Stephen King entries, "Misery", "Hearts in Atlantis" and "Dreamcatcher".
Among whimsical fantasy, you rendered "Memories of an Invisible Man" for John Carpenter..."The Princess Bride" for Rob Riener; and let's not overlook your uncredited influence on the outlandish "Last Action Hero" and "Twins".
However, for those who savor, character-driven, "Psycho"-based intensity, you dispatched one of the greatest: "Magic". Per producer Joseph E. Levin and director Richard Attenborough, the film version of your book gave Anthony Hopkins one of his meatiest roles and for the big screen, one of the most devilish, ventriloquist dolls ever to chatter.
Like a faithful friend, you delivered your services with remarkable consistency, pleasing audiences time and again. There's no doubt that your contributions will live on, as you will, Mr. Goldman, in the annals of creative infinity.
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