Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid nominated), and Best Actress for Katharine Ross, among others. William Goldman won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" in 1998. The film inspired the television series "Alias Smith and Jones", starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy as outlaws trying to earn an amnesty. A parody titled "Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid" was published in "MAD". It was illustrated by
Brian Cassidy of the Special Victims Unit, he lacks the emotional maturity to deal with sex crimes and the language to describe them. He views his partner, John Munch (Richard Belzer), as a mentor. Cassidy has a drunken one-night stand with fellow SVU Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), and expresses a desire to pursue a relationship. Benson turns him down, however, citing a policy of not having relationships with co-workers. Years later, Benson expresses regret at the way she handled the situation. This and the stress of the unit wear Cassidy down and, after an outburst in the squad room directed at