Writer Terry Southern’s telephone rang out-of-the-blue one afternoon in December 1962, during the height of the Cold War.
It was filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, calling from London.
“[H]e told me he was going to make a film about ‘our failure to understand the dangers of nuclear war.’
“He said that he had th…
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