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May 9, 2001 |
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UPDATE - May 9, 2001:
Greetings from Dennis Gonzales
33 years later.
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There will be a blackout on Wednesday - Thursday (May 16/17) because we
are switching service providers. Please pass this information amongst
your 2001 friends.
- http://www.2001exhibit.org/fashion2.html
- http://www.2001exhibit.org/fashion3.html
- http://www.thetech.org/2001ds/index.html
- http://www.cyclepathz.com
- http://photos.yahoo.com/extraultraviolet
After the switch, we will be adding new features to our web site written by fans such as you. Without your support, there is no way this site would exist. New features, is the fashion category, covering costume designer Andrea Edelman and her fantastic reproduction of the Space Station 5 female uniform.
Photography work and direction by our own Mark Watson. Film resources by "2001" collector Dennis Gilliam and local fashion model, Valerie Prigent. The complete Hardy Ames costume will be on sale. Also in the fashion category, British Designer Hardy Amies, written by me, Dennis Gonzales.
The model category will feature Captain Cardboard's Space Pod kit, which is now featured at the Tech Museum's 2001:DESTINATION SPACE exhibit, built and painted by Dennis Gonzales; air brushed work by Mark Watson. Photography work by Mark Watson and written by Dennis Gonzales and Mark Watson. Speaking of Captain Cardboard, the large Discovery One Model will be exhibited at 2001:DISTINATION SPACE after the second week of May due to some delays. If you haven't already, check out the new 2001:DESTINATION SPACE website. If you can't make it to San Jose, then perhaps the best next thing is the on-line version.
Have you ever seen a Discovery Spacecraft float on water? Or driven downtown in a parade? Paul Baily from cyclepathz.com has reported the Kinetic Sculpture Challenge has been delayed due to inclement weather in Colorado to May 12th. Pictures of 2001: a space oddity in the parade from April 28th is up.
Dr. David Stork will be at The Tech Museum Saturday, May 12 at 2pm. The lecture, the "HAL 9000 computer and the vision of '2001: A Space Odyssey,' will take place in Classroom A which is on the lower level near the entrance to the Exploration gallery. The lecture is free with a paid admission. For further information, please visit the Tech at http://www.thetech.org or http://sucia.stanford.edu/~stork/HALTalks.html
I'll be at this lecture, so if anyone is there from this list, come up and say hi.
Here is a review written by "2001" fan Jeff Grote that appeared in the AMK list. Also featured are pictures and real media files from the North American premiere of the "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" at the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 2, 2001. His review had a nice reply from Jan Harlan. Good work Jeff! Anyone can make a difference if you just do it. I also forgot to mention last month that Jeff supplied me information about Frederick Ordway's lecture at the Chicago Art Institute. This lead me to contact Mr. Ordway so I can find out what exactly he had on displayed at his lecture. Mr. Ordway expresses interest in visiting 2001:DESTINATION SPACE this summer.
-Dennis Gonzales
Hi all -
I had the pleasure of attending the North American premiere of "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" at the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 2, 2001. I attended the screening with Dennis Gonzales and Wally Fields, primary consultants for the '2001: A Space Odyssey' Collectibles Exhibit currently being displayed at the San Jose Tech Museum, and with Randy Jensen, an A.I. researcher here in California. I think I can safely say that there was no bigger group of rabid '2001: A Space Odyssey' fans/geeks in San Francisco's Japantown on May 2nd... :)
I'd like to share just a few impressions and observations about the film and the Q & A session that Jan Harlan held after the screening. I've also posted a few pictures of this event online at:
and I've put two video clips of Harlan's comments at:
http://www.freedrive.com
username: jeffgrote
password: kubrick
As you've certainly heard by now, the documentary itself is a very sympathetic portrait of Kubrick, starting in his early childhood, examining every major piece of work that he accomplished, and then concluding with artists' and critics' comments on Kubrick's legacy. As we'll soon see when the DVD is released, there's plenty of behind-the-scenes footage from 'Spartacus' through 'EWS', interviews with almost all of the principals in his films, and lots of personal insights offered by his family and friends. I'll leave it to you to form your own opinions about the work, but I'd like to say that I was surprised by how much the documentary seemed to be trying to remove the mystery and myth surrounding Kubrick. As one might expect, there was very little of the warts-and-all portrayal that we found in John Baxter's book, and it seems that Harlan was trying to convey the portrait of a very complex, kind family man who was consumed by his work. It wouldn't surprise me to see future documentaries which are a little less charitable and sympathetic towards Kubrick, but this serves as a brilliant (and long overdue) point of departure for investigating the legend.
I was also pleased to attend the Question & Answer session with Jan Harlan. Given the decades of secrecy and speculation surrounding Kubrick, waves of unreality were rolling over me as I realized that we finally had the opportunity to pose questions to a member of Kubrick's family. I'm sorry to say that I got distracted when I was shooting pictures and video of the event, and am not able to remember everything that was said. Dennis Gonzales has already written about a few of the questions, and I can offer several other additional paraphrasings, below:
Q: Why was Tom Cruise chosen as the narrator?
A: He was the last actor to work with Stanley, and they were very close.
Q: Were Ligeti and Kubrick finally on good terms?
A: Yes, Ligeti seems to have misunderstood how his music was legally free to be manipulated by Kubrick, and after some financial oversights were cleared up, they mended their fences. (Ligeti seems downright effusive in the film, I might add.)
Q: What is the Kubrick estate's attitude towards the release of Stanley's writings, outtakes, and other assorted film paraphernalia?
A: We are currently going through his personal archives and are inclined to release documents and writings which would be pertinent to the film community. We would certainly never release any outtakes from his films - - if Stanley edited them out of his work, then they should never see the light of day. I've been asked repeatedly to release the pie-throwing scene from 'Dr. Strangelove', and we will never, ever do that.
Q: Did anyone decline to be interviewed for the documentary?
A: The only person who declined to be interviewed was Ryan O'Neal.
I'll be posting video clips of the Q & A in the next few days. Please feel free to contact me at jwgrote@earthlink.net with any questions.
Cheers -
Jeff Grote
Posted by:
Dennis Gonzales
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