ready to be spat out." He wrote every weekday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, without taking breaks. Personal life Boam lived in the San Fernando Valley with his wife, Paula, a photographer and daughter of a Paramount Pictures vice president. They had three children, Tessa, Mia, and Dashiell. USA Today described Boam as "low-key", and The New York Times called him "a polite, soft-spoken family man without a trace of the frenzied energy of his films." Film critic Christopher Hicks said that Boam could be unusually candid, but that "Boam is simply Boam—a reclusive writer rather than a celebrity worried about his image. And what you see is what you get, if perhaps a bit outspoken and opinionated." He died on January 24, 2000, due to a heart failure from a rare lung disease. Filmography Straight Time (with Edward Bunker) (1978) The Dead Zone (1983) Innerspace (with Chip Proser, 1987) The Lost Boys (with Janice Fischer and James Jeremias, 1987) Funny Farm (1988) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) Lethal Weapon 3 (with Robert Mark Kamen, 1992)The Witches of Eastwick (with Michael Cristofer and Carlton Cuse, 1992, TV) The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (also co-creator and executive producer, with Carlton Cuse, 1993, TV) Tales from the Crypt, episode No. 61, "Creep Course" (1993) (TV, also director) The Phantom'' (1996, also co-producer) References External links 1946 births 2000 deaths American male screenwriters Film producers from New York (state) People from Fair Lawn, New Jersey UCLA Film School alumni 20th-century American businesspeople Businesspeople from Rochester, New York Writers from Rochester, New York California State University, Sacramento alumni Screenwriters from New York (state) Screenwriters from New Jersey Film producers from New Jersey Hugo Award-winning writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters