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When 200 1 opened,
like previous films of Kubrick's. . .
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. . .it split both the critics
and the audience.
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The opening of 200 1
was very frightening. . .
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. . .because we had all the executives
sitting in the audience. . .
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. . .very old, many of them.
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They didn't understand the film at
all and left, whole rows of them.
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And we were panic stricken.
Then there was an enormous. . .
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. . .catastrophic meeting
in our hotel room. . .
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. . .and Stanley was so upset
he lost his voice.
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We were up all night. The next
morning we went to this house. . .
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. . .and Stanley was battling on
in New York.
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I fell, clutching my handbag,
across. . .
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. . .my bed asleep,
because I hadn't slept all night.
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And woke up to the sounds of a DJ. . .
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. . .saying:
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"This is the most fantastic film and
people are queuing around the block. "
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He was talking about 200 1.
:59:46
I was desperately trying
to ring Stanley to tell him. . .
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. . .some people like it, it was the
blue-rinse brigade that walked out.
:59:55
He told me that the first. . .