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BONNIE AND CLYDE Screenwriter Newman Passed Away Last Month...

David Newman, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter whose films included "Bonnie and Clyde" and the "Superman movies" died last month at the age of 66. Newman died at Lenox Hill Hospital late Thursday, after suffering a massive stroke, a family representative told the press. Newman, who began his career as an editor at Esquire magazine, penned screenplays for more than a dozen films, sometimes with his wife, Leslie Newman, other times with Robert Benton, director of "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Places in the Heart". Benton and Newman first came to prominence when they wrote the screenplay for "Bonnie and Clyde", perhaps the first "modern" action film in the 1967. It starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Directed by Arthur Penn, the movie was at first denounced by critics for glamorizing the notorious killers, but it won audiences over and was eventually nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including best screenplay. Newman, his wife and others worked on the screenplays for "Superman", the 1978 hit, and its sequels. Newman also wrote for the stage, including the book for the Tony-nominated musical The Life. Newman won numerous awards, including the New York Film Critics Award, the National Society of Film Critics Award and three Writers Guild of America Awards.

He is survived by his wife and two children.

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