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. . .whether he was being applauded
or damned.
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Stanley Kubrick was born in New York
on the 26th of July, 1 928.
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His father, Jack, was a doctor. . .
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. . .who'd married Gertrude Perveler
the previous year.
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His sister, Barbara, was born
six years later, in 1 934.
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Today, a lot of people that have
kids that are that far apart. . .
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. . .they encourage the older one to
nurture the younger one as a baby. . .
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. . .so they get to love them.
:04:41
But I gather Stanley
was very jealous. . .
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. . .you know, that I was there.
:04:46
He was very good, though.
He was very good to me.
:04:50
Nobody ever accuses him
of being playful.
:04:53
Well, he was playful. . .
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. . .like on The Addams Family
kind of playful.
:05:01
When he was little, I think they
considered him kind of a sissy. . .
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. . .because he just wasn't
like your typical boy.
:05:10
He read a lot. He always had a book.
:05:13
Well, my mother read all the time.
:05:15
She always was behind him, always,
and she really believed it.
:05:20
She says, "There's nothing
you can't do. "
:05:23
She always was supportive of him.
:05:26
She was really a great mother,
I think.
:05:31
-Were they strict, Gert and Jack?
-No.
:05:35
Never. He always did what he wanted.
:05:38
In 1 941, when Stanley was
1 2 years old. . .
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. . .he went to Taft High School
in the Bronx.
:05:44
At the beginning, I think, of the
second week, Stanley turned to me. . .
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. . .as the class opened and said. . .
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. . .could I let him copy the day's
homework? I said, "Sure, why not?"
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The next day he asked the same thing.