Mike Kaplan's reminiscences about Stanley Kubrick

Reminiscences about Stanley Kubrick written by Mike Kaplan, a veteran film executive who was Kubrick's marketing man for his film A Clockwork Orange, having also worked extensively on the release of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange opened nationally 40 years ago this month.

1. How Stanley Kubrick Invented the Modern Box-Office Report (By Accident)
   
2. Inside the First Screening of A Clockwork Orange
   
3. How Stanley Kubrick Shot His Own Newsweek Cover
   
4. How Stanley Kubrick Kept His Eye on the Budget, Down to the Orange Juice
   

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"The percentage of fine people is increasing"

From The Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers:
"I believe the world is slowly getting better. The percentage of fine people is increasing. Man has not yet overcome his malignant environment, but men as animals will improve.
-Thomas Edison. “Mr. Edison’s Views of Life and Work,” Review of Reviews, Jan 1932, vol. 85. Page 31.

From the AAAS News Archives:

Businesses that would like to increase their creativity and “innovate like Edison” should look back at the practices of one of history’s most productive inventors, author and business consultant Sarah Miller Caldicott said at on 8 December at the Fourth Annual AAAS-Hitachi Lecture on Science & Society, organized by the AAAS Center of Science, Policy and Society Programs.

A great-grandniece of Thomas Alva Edison, and a descendant of other inventors, Caldicott said she grew up hearing stories about how her relatives worked through problems and dealt with business successes and failures. After studying Edison’s papers housed at Rutgers University and other sources about his work, she published her findings in a 2007 book, Innovate Like Edison, which she co-authored with Michael Gelb.

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