Other films that he wrote or co-wrote included Logan's Run, Monte Walsh, and Farewell, My Lovely.
Born to a Jewish family[8] in Manhattan, he majored in English at Queens College, then studied at Yale Drama School in 1958.
[9] At age 24, his play, High Named Today, which was to have starred Jane Wyatt on Broadway, ended up running briefly Off-Broadway in February 1954.
[10] He was often sought as a "script doctor" because he could quickly identify screenplay flaws, as when Sherry Lansing brought him in to work on the thriller Fatal Attraction.
According to his friend, the film and television producer Zev Braun, Goodman said to Lansing of the Glenn Close character: "You can't let her off the hook.