 At a WGA seminar in 2003, William Goldman (qv) denied the  persistent rumor that he was the actual writer of Good Will Hunting:  "I would love to say that I wrote it. Here is the truth. In my obit  it will say that I wrote it. People dont want to think those two  cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was  their script. They gave it to Rob [Reiner] to read, and there was a  great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to  use Matt Damon (qv) for spy work because he was so brilliant in  math. Rob said, "Get rid of it." They then sent them in to see me  for a day 