I can’t believe my father never told me this story before. For a period of time when I was a kid we lived in the same building as Stanley Kubrick in New York. It was when he was working on the script for 2001: A Space Odyssey with Arthur C. Clarke...
One day my father was taking my sister to the circus. The elevator stopped and Arthur C. Clarke got on, leaving a work session at Kubrick’s apartment. My sister said, “I’m going to the circus.” Arthur C. Clarke said, “I’ve just come from one, my dear.” (!)
Yes it sounds “written” but why would my father lie to me after all these years? And Arthur C. Clarke was a writer. I’m buying it.
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