NP, but Kubrick

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Tue Apr 3 11:41:34 CDT 2012


On 4/3/2012 12:01 PM, Monte Davis wrote:
> Speaking of K:
> It's my hazy recollection that the string "How I learned to stop worrying
> and love [x]" already had some currency before its appearance as sub/alter
> title to Dr. Strangelove. It's always had the flavor of parody, verbal
> sendup, but the original is 100% subsumed by now. Was it echoing the title
> of a memoir, a self-help  book? Or am I making this up? Au secours, Boomers
> and wannabes!



How to Stop Worrying and Start Living--Dale Carnegie

P


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> MD
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> Subject: NP, but Kubrick
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> http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/stanley_kubricks_very_first_films_three_s
> hort_documentaries.html
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> LK
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