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...quote attributed to me in you April 18th article on a debate of Black leftists was incorrect. The statement in reference to the Klan. "We must smash the hell out of them," was said by Ed Jarvis of the Sparticus League, not me as you article stated...
Kubrick's next two works, though failures, were hopeful ones. Sparticus was, as Stanley Kauffmann said, a first-rate circus, giving the director a chance to have fun with blockbuster sets and length. Lolita lacked a painfully necessary erotic core, but it had, in Peter Sellers, a brilliant Quilty. It was with Dr. Strangelove that Kubrick again fulfilled his talent--what he accomplished, not only in story structure and images but with parodic dialogue and commentary as well, needs little more appreciation than it has already, justly, received...
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