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...uncertainty about where he wanted his story to go. Early on, some Mau Mau rebels who have escaped from jail pose a potential threat to the Hemingway encampment, but they abruptly vanish from the narrative. Another plot line involves Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, and her fierce determination to shoot a particular lion before Christmas Day. "He's my lion," she says, sounding uncomfortably like a contestant in a Bad Hemingway writing contest, "and I love him and respect him and I have to kill him." She does so about halfway through the book...
...three years for one movie? Were they mad? With Kubrick's famous obsession for perfection, the 18-week shoot turned into 52 weeks over 15 months. Cruise, Hollywood's $20 million man, took himself out of the game at the height of his career, accepted a sizable pay cut, moved his family to England, put himself through workdays that ran 12 to 16 hours and, in the process, developed an ulcer...
Hours after the screening, Cruise, flying to the home the couple keep in Sydney, Australia, where he was preparing to shoot Mission Impossible 2, called Kubrick from the plane. "Stanley was so excited. We talked for four or five hours," says Cruise. Four days later came a call with the news that Kubrick had died. "I said, 'No, that's impossible,' " says Cruise. "Then the other phone line was ringing, and it was Nic in New York. She was really disturbed. I was really worried about her. I was in shock...
...Stanley knew that's how he worked best. He was not indulgent," says Cruise. Even so, there were moments when they wondered what they'd got themselves into. Says Kidman: "Sometimes it was very frustrating because you were thinking: 'Is this ever going to end?'" The long shoot, and its subject matter, eventually took a toll physically on Cruise. He is reluctant to talk about his ulcer, fearing the inevitable headlines--KUBRICK GIVES CRUISE AN ULCER!--but confides that he woke up one night early in the production in terrible pain. "I didn't want to tell Stanley. He panicked...
...spent my middle school summers at a small all-boys camp hidden away on Lake Winnipesaukee in the New Hampshire mountains, far removed from any semblance of civilization or technology. It was as close to the stereotypical "summer camp" as it could be--I learned how to shoot a rifle, launch a bow and arrow, light a campfire and swim the butterfly...