Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 105. Chapters: Stanley Kubrick, T. S. Eliot, Terry Gilliam, Raymond Chandler, Henry James, Yehudi Menuhin, Zoe Wanamaker, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Edgar Speyer, Marsha Hunt, Elizabeth Ryan, Chaka Khan, Judah P. Benjamin, Henry Channon, Sienna Miller, Cornelia Adair, Johnnie Dodge, John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, David Bieber, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, David Soul, Isaac Guillory, Bonnie Greer, Henry Wellcome, Ronald Tree, Betsy Blair, Andrei Navrozov, Rich Fulcher, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, Caroline Benn, Ernest Aldrich Simpson, Kelly LeBrock, Tom Molineaux, Paul Gambaccini, Robert Worcester, William Burdett-Coutts, Tony Dorsey, Adam Zamoyski, Nina Fishman, Dorris Henderson, Francis Joseph Campbell, Laurel Powers-Freeling, Raymond Geuss, Lorelei King, Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, Edward Knoblock, Alice Goodman, Sarmila Bose, Marta Cunningham, Paul Czinner, Annie Griffin, Todd Cauthorn, Curtis Price, Joel Burns, Sheila Ferguson, Abu Usamah, Rodd Christensen, David Zane Mairowitz, Sterling Davis, Eliot Zborowski, Mike Katz. Excerpt: Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999) was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, his reluctance to talk about his films, and his reclusiveness regarding his personal life. He maintained almost complete artistic control, making movies according to his own whims and time constraints, but with the rare advantage of big-studio financial support for all his endeavors. Kubrick's films are characterized by a formal visual style and meticulous attention to detail. His later films often have elem...