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25. Gene Phillips, “Spartacus,” in The Stanley Kubrick Archives, 318.
26. Ginna interview.
27. Terry Southern interview with SK, 1962, The Stanley Kubrick Archives, 343.
28. Ginna interview.
29. Kirk Douglas letter to Stan Margulies, April 27, 1959, SKA, SK/9/4/3.
30. On SK’s idea of the “small” Spartacus vs. Trumbo’s and Douglas’s “big” one, see Fiona Radford, “Having His Cake and Eating It Too: SK and Spartacus,” The Stanley Kubrick Archives, 105, 110–11.
31. Peter Ustinov letter to SK, no date, SKA, SK/9/4/2–6.
32. SK letter to Laurence Olivier, June 5, 1959, SKA, SK/9/4/3.
33. Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies (New York: Henry Holt, 1991), 547.
34. Nathan Abrams, Stanley Kubrick (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018), 69.
35. Vincent LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick (New York: DaCapo, 1999), 187.
36. LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 190.
37. SK letter to Calder Willingham, no date, SKA, SK/10/8/4.
38. Calder Willingham letter to SK, December 14, 1959, SKA, SK/10/8/4.
39. Martin Russ letter to SK, no date, SKA, SK/10/8/7.
40. Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 407.
41. James Naremore, On Kubrick (London: British Film Institute, 2007), 99.
42. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: A Screenplay, xii–xiii.
43. Laurence Olivier letter to SK, December 15, 1959, SKA, SK/10/8/4.
44. James Harris letter to SK, December 22, 1959, SKA, SK/10/8/4 (Bardot); LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 203 (Kubrick quote); Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 150 (Nabokov quote).
45. Sue Lyon letter to James Harris, November 30, 1960, signed also by her mother and her teacher Bev Westman, SKA, SK/10/8/4.
46. SK letter to Peter Ustinov, May 20, 1960, SKA, SK/10/8/4, cited in Karyn Stuckey, “Re-Writing Nabokov’s Lolita,” in Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, ed. Tatjana Ljujic´, Peter Krämer, and Richard Daniels (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015), 127.
47. SK letter to Ustinov, May 20, 1960.
48. Stuckey, “Re-Writing Nabokov’s Lolita,” 128 (first scene); Mick Broderick, Reconstructing Strangelove (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 86; “Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove,” Cinephilia and Beyond, https://cinephiliabeyond.org/stanley-kubricks-dr-strangelove-the-sharpest-most-cautioning-hilarious-political-satire/ (quotes).
49. From “Outline of Lolita,” included with SK letter to Ustinov, cited in Nathan Abrams, “An Alternative New York Jewish Intellectual,” Ljujic´, Krämer, and Daniels, Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, 70.
50. LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 204 (Granz); Richard Corliss, Lolita (London: British Film Institute, 1994), 47.
51. Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (New York: Applause, 2000), 346.
52. Lewis, Life and Death, 344.
53. LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 205.
54. Filippo Ulivieri, “Waiting for a Miracle: A Survey of Stanley Kubrick’s Unrealized Projects,” Cinergie, September 4, 2017, https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/7349/7318.
55. Vladimir Nabokov, The Annotated Lolita, ed. Alfred Appel (New York: Vintage, 1991), 283.
56. Southern interview, 343.
57. SK letter to Peter Ustinov, May 20, 1960, SKA, SK/10/8/4.
58. Jeremy Bernstein interview with SK, 1965, https://www.indiewire.com/2013/12/listen-rare-76-minute-interview-with-stanley-kubrick-about-his-start-in-films-nuclear-war-chess-strategies-248700/.
59. John Collins letter to SK, May 9, 1961, SKA, SK/10/8/7.
60. Author interview with Christiane Kubrick.
61. Author interview with Christiane Kubrick (first two quotes); Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 166, citing a Times of London February 5, 1973, interview with Christiane Kubrick (third quote).
Chapter 3. Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control
1. Jeremy Bernstein interview with SK, 1965, https://www.indiewire.com/2013/12/listen-rare-76-minute-interview-with-stanley-kubrick-about-his-start-in-films-nuclear-war-chess-strategies-248700/.
2. Five-O interview with James B. Harris, 2002, Scraps from the Loft https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2018/02/16/james-b-harris-interview-2002/; Alex Singer letter to SK, March 28, 1964, University of the Arts, London, Stanley Kubrick Archive (hereinafter SKA), SK/11/9/97.
3. F. X. Feeney interview with James B. Harris, Director’s Guild of America, spring 2013, https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1302-Spring-2013/James-Harris-on-Stanley-Kubrick.aspx.
4. Romain LeVern interview with James B. Harris, Chaos, 2018 (my translation), http://www.chaosreign.fr/james-b-harris-eyes-wide-shut-est-le-moins-bon-film-de-stanley-kubrick/.
5. LeVern interview with James B. Harris.
6. Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005), 5 (“immediate peril”); Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), 34, 91, 94 (statistics and final quote).
7. Ghamari-Tabrizi, Worlds of Herman Kahn, 70.
8. Ghamari-Tabrizi, Worlds of Herman Kahn, 70.
9. Mick Broderick, Reconstructing Strangelove (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 58.
10. Ghamari-Tabrizi, Worlds of Herman Kahn, 123.
11. Bernstein interview.
12. See P. D. Smith, Doomsday Men (New York: St. Martin’s, 2007).
13. Eric Schlosser, “Almost Everything in ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Was True,” New Yorker, January 17, 2014.
14. Author interview with Christiane Kubrick, July 8, 2018.
15. Christiane Kubrick interview.
16. Christiane Kubrick interview.
17. Speaking during a cabinet meeting on July 25, 1956, Eisenhower was referring to the hysterical behavior likely to follow news of a Russian nuclear strike. http://www.conelrad.com/atomicsecrets/secrets.php?secrets=e18.
18. John Baxter, Stanley Kubrick (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1997), 181.
19. Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (New York: Knopf, 1965), 28, 31.
20. SKA, SK/11/1/9, cited in Nathan Abrams, “An Alternative Jewish Intellectual,” Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, ed. Tatjana Ljujic´, Peter Krämer, and Richard Daniels (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015), 74.
21. Cited in Gene Phillips, “Dr. Strangelove,” in The Stanley Kubrick Archives, ed. Alison Castle (New York: Taschen, 2004), 351.
22. SK letter to George C. Scott, November 12, 1963, SK 11/9/97.
23. Terry Southern, “Strangelove Outtake: Notes from the War Room,” Grand Street 49 (Summer 1994): 67.
24. Southern, “Strangelove Outtake,” 72.
25. Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 180.
26. Anne Quito, “The Man Who Designed Dr. Strangelove’s Apocalyptic Set Shaped Today’s Negotiation Rooms,” Quartz, March 15, 2016, https://qz.com/638778/the-man-who-designed-dr-strangeloves-apocalyptic-set-shaped-todays-negotiation-rooms/.
27. Southern, “Strangelove Outtake,” 80.
28. James Mason letter to SK, January 20, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/77. The PR firm’s letter, from Allan, Foster, Ingersoll and Weber, mentions Hedda Hopper, Vernon Scott of UPI, Harrison Carroll, and Phil Schener.
29. SK letter to Robert Murray at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, no date, SKA, SK 11/9/94.
30. Robert Brustein, “Out of This World,” New York Review of Books, February 6, 1964; SK letter to Anthony Macklin, August 11, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/77.
31. SK letter to Herbert Mitgang of CBS News, June 18, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/77; SK letter to Gilbert Seldes, April 6, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/97; SK letter to the Actors Studio, December 7, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/1.
32. Todd Gitlin letter to SK, marked “unanswered,” May 29, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/97; SK letter to SANE, July 9, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/97; SK letter to Johnson campaign, September 18, 1964, SKA, SK11/9/94.
33. SK letter to Thomas Fryer, August 19, 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/94.
34. SK, undated essay, SKA, SK11/9/94.
35. Author interview with Julian Senior, July 9, 2018.
36. SK letter to Martin Russ, August 20, 1964, SKA, SK11/9/93.
37. SKA, SK/11/9/77.
38. SK letter to Robert Ettinger, August 12 1964, SKA, SK/11/9/94.
39. SK letter to Robert Ettinger, August 20, 1964, SKA, SK11/9/94. In his Playboy interview with Eric Norden (September 1968), Kubrick talked at length about Ettinger’s ideas.
40. SKA, SK/11/9/5.
Chapter 4. The Tower of Babel Was the Start of the Space Age
1. Robert Ardrey, African Genesis (New York: Dell, 1961).
2. David Thomson, The Whole Equation (New York: Knopf), 155; Martin Scorsese, Introduction to Michel Ciment, Kubrick: The Definitive Edition (New York: Faber and Faber, 2003).
3. Michael Benson, Space Odyssey (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018), 39, 22.
4. Jeremy Bernstein interview with SK, 1965, https://www.indiewire.com/2013/12/listen-rare-76-minute-interview-with-stanley-kubrick-about-his-start-in-films-nuclear-war-chess-strategies-248700/.
5. Danielle Heymann interview with SK, published in Le Monde, October 17, 1987, here quoted from University of the Arts, London, Stanley Kubrick Archive, SK/1/2/8/5.
6. Bernstein interview.
7. Bernstein interview.
8. Benson, Space Odyssey, 88 (Christiane Kubrick quote); “Kubrick on The Shining: An Interview with Michel Ciment” (SK quote).
9. Benson, Space Odyssey, 76 (Clarke quote); Nathan Abrams, Stanley Kubrick (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018), 133 (SK quote).
10. Benson, Space Odyssey, 211.
11. Abrams, Stanley Kubrick, 132.
12. Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), 407.
13. Benson, Space Odyssey, 181.
14. Dan Richter, Moonwatcher’s Memoir (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2002), 38.
15. Richter, Moonwatcher’s Memoir, 130.
16. Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1968), 297.
17. Benson, Space Odyssey, 418.
18. Benson, Space Odyssey, 431.
19. Michael Powell, “A Survivor of Film Criticism’s Heroic Age,” New York Times, July 9, 2009.
20. Alexander Walker, Sybil Taylor, and Ulrich Ruchti, Stanley Kubrick, Director (New York: Norton, 1971), 162.
21. Ardrey, African Genesis, 348.
Chapter 5. Let’s Open with a Sicilian Defence
1. SK letter to Ron Lubin, August 18, 1964, University of the Arts, London, Stanley Kubrick Archive, SK/11/9/100.
2. Joseph Gelmis interview with SK (1970), in Stanley Kubrick: Interviews, ed. Gene Phillips (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi), 84.
3. A transcript of SK’s conversations with Felix Markham is included in Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made, ed. Alison Castle (Cologne: Taschen, 2017).
4. Stanley Kubrick, Napoleon screenplay, http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/picture/upload/napoleon.pdf.
5. Gelmis interview, 84.
6. Kubrick, Napoleon screenplay.
7. Kubrick Remembered, dir. Gary Khammar (2014); see Vincent Canby’s review of Barry Lyndon, New York Times, December 21, 1975 (“Please don’t send me any more pictures where the hero writes with a feather”).
8. Eva-Maria Magel, “The Best Movie (N)ever Made,” Kinematograph 20 (2004): 165.
9. Steven Englund, Napoleon (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), xiv.
10. Vincent LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick (New York: DaCapo, 1999), 336.
11. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962; New York: Norton, 1986), 42, 38.
12. LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 338.
13. John Baxter, Stanley Kubrick (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1997), 247.
14. Julian Rice describes Alex as an overgrown child in Kubrick’s Hope (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), 67–74.
15. Robert Kolker, The Cultures of American Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 233–35.
16. Andrew Bailey interview with SK, Rolling Stone, January 20, 1972.
17. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 130.
18. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 131.
19. Author interview with Tom Courtenay, July 11, 2017.
20. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 28; see the offhanded racist “throw ’em a basketball” joke in Full Metal Jacket.
21. Kolker, The Extraordinary Image, 162.
22. Times of London obituary of Adrienne Corri, March 25, 2016.
23. Joseph Gelmis interview with SK, cited in LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 360.
24. James Naremore, On Kubrick (London: British Film Institute, 2007), 158–59.
25. Interview with Malcolm MacDowell, A Clockwork Orange Blu-ray.
26. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 44–45.
27. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 102.
28. Victor Davis interview with SK, Daily Express, January 1972, cited in LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 356; see also Robert Hughes, review of A Clockwork Orange, Time, December 27, 1971.
29. SK, “Now Kubrick Fights Back,” New York Times, February 27, 1972.
30. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 172.
31. Pauline Kael, “Stanley Strangelove” (review of A Clockwork Orange), New Yorker, January 1, 1972, https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2016/09/18/a-clockwork-orange-pauline-kael/.
32. Kael, “Stanley Strangelove.”
33. LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 359.
34. LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 364.
35. Bailey interview.
36. Author interview with Julian Senior, July 9, 2018.
37. Senior interview.
38. Senior interview.
Chapter 6. You Can Talk for Hours about a Thing with Stanley
1. Emilio D’Alessandro, with Filippo Ulivieri, Stanley Kubrick and Me (New York: Arcade, 2012), 70.
2. Peter Bogdanovich, “What They Say about Stanley Kubrick,” New York Times Magazine, July 4, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/magazine/what-they-say-about-stanley-kubrick.html.
3. Christopher Anderson, “The Girl Who Has Everything,” People, March 8, 1976, https://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-girl-who-has-everything-vol-5-no-9/.
4. Geoffrey O’Brien, print essay, Barry Lyndon Blu-ray.
5. Bogdanovich, “What They Say.”
6. Bogdanovich, “What They Say” (Adam quote); Filmworker, dir. Tony Zierra (2017) (Senior quote).
7. D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me, 59–60.
8. Vincent LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick (New York: DaCapo, 1999), 403.
9. LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick, 402.
10. Author interview with Lawrence Malkin, February 12, 2018.
11. Interview with Michel Ciment, Barry Lyndon, Blu-ray.
12. Filmworker.
13. Interview with Adam Eaker, Barry Lyndon Blu-ray.
14. Julian Rice, Kubrick’s Hope (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow/Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), 93.
Chapter 7. Something Inherently Wrong with the Human Personality
1. “For weeks,” Emilio D’Alessandro recalled, “the special effects team . . . had tried and tried again to produce fake blood that convinced Stanley, but he was never satisfied with the color.” D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me (New York: Arcade, 2012), 115.
2. John Baxter, Stanley Kubrick (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1997), 314–15.
3. Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 313.
4. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, ed. Danel Olson (Lakewood, CO: Centipede, 2015), 642.
5. Michel Ciment, Kubrick: The Definitive Edition (New York: Faber and Faber, 2003), 189.
6. David Thomson, The Whole Equation (New York: Knopf), 331; Olson, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, 631.
7. Nathan Abrams, Stanley Kubrick (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018), 135, compares Jack and HAL.
8. Jack Kroll, review of The Shining, Newsweek, June 2, 1980, https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2016/09/17
/shining-stanley-kubricks-horror-show/.
9. Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, trans. E. F. J. Payne (New York: Dover, 1958), 1: 394–95.
10. Arthur Schopenhauer, letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 11, 1815, Gesammelte Briefe, ed. Arthur Hübscher (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1978), 18.
11. Douglas Luckhurst, The Shining (London: British Film Institute, 2013), 79.
12. Vincent LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick (New York: DaCapo, 1999), 445.
13. D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me, 118.
14. Typed notes and scene outlines from July 11 and August 27, 1977, University of the Arts, London, Stanley Kubrick Archive, SK/15/1/1, SK/15/1/9; “Ending idea . . . saved by cook,” SK/15/1/3.
15. Baxter, Stanley Kubrick, 319.
16. Olson, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, 526 (Vitali quote); Ciment, Kubrick, 301 (Duvall quote).
17. Author interview with Julian Senior, July 9, 2018.
18. Like Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and A Clockwork Orange, The Shining ends with an old-fashioned song and a tableau of return.
Chapter 8. Make Sure It’s Big—Lon Chaney Big
1. Emilio D’Alessandro, with Filippo Ulivieri, Stanley Kubrick and Me (New York: Arcade, 2012), 135, 139.
2. Dalia Karpel, “The Real Stanley Kubrick,” Haaretz, November 3, 2005, https://www.haaretz.com/1.4880226.
3. Filmworker, dir. Tony Zierra (2017).
4. D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me, 170.
5. D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me, 168, 78–80 (SK quote and guidelines); Karpel, “The Real Stanley Kubrick” (Christiane Kubrick quote).
6. D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me, 150.
7. D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick and Me, 74 (phone calls to Barbara); Peter Bogdanovich, “What They Say about Stanley Kubrick,” New York Times Magazine, July 4, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/magazine/what-they-say-about-stanley-kubrick.html (Milius quote).
8. Danielle Heymann interview with SK, published in Le Monde, October 17, 1987, here quoted from University of the Arts, London, Stanley Kubrick Archive (hereinafter SKA), SK/1/2/8/5.
