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Director Kubrick dies in England
LONDON (AP) - Stanley Kubrick, the direc
tor of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “A
Clockwork Orange,” whose films often puzzled
and shocked audiences only to end up as classics,
died Sunday at his home in England, his family
said. He was 70.
Police were summoned to Kubrick’s rural
home north of London on Sunday afternoon, said
authorities in Hertfordshire, where he was certi
fied dead.
“There are no suspicious circumstances,”
police said.
Kubrick’s family announced his death, and
said there would be no further comment.
Kubrick’s films included “Spartacus” in
1960, “Lolita” in 1962, “Dr. Strangelove,” in
1964, “2001” in 1968 and “A Clockwork
Orange” in 1971.
He also made “Barry Lyndon,” released in
1975, “The Shining” in 1980 and “Full Metal
Jacket” in 1987.
Malcolm McDowell, who starred in “A
< Clockwork Orange,” issued a statement through
his publicist calling Kubrick “a heavyweight of
my life.”
“He was the last great director of that era. He
was the big daddy,” said McDowell.
Kubrick’s latest film, “Eyes Wide Shut,” is
still slated for release July 16, Warner Bros, said
Sunday. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star in
the story of jealousy and obsession, which
Kubrick made in great secrecy.
“He was like family to us and we are in shock
and devastated,” Cruise and Kidman said in a
statement released by their publicist.
Director Steven Spielberg issued a statement
describing Kubrick as a “grand master of film
making.”
“He created more than just movies. He gave
us complete environmental experiences,”
Spielberg said.
Kubrick was bom July 26,1928, in New York.
At 17, he was hired as a staff photographer by
Look magazine, which had been impressed by a
picture Kubrick had snapped on the day President
Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
While working at Look, he studied film by
attending screenings at the Museum of Modem
Art.
“I was aware that I didn’t know any
thing about making films, but I believed
I couldn’t make them any worse than the
majority of films I was seeing. Bad films
gave me the courage to try making a movie,”
Kubrick once said.
In 1951, he sold a 16-minute documentary
about a boxer, “Day of the Fight,” to the RKO
film studio.
Kubrick was drafted by actor Kirk
Douglas into the film “Spartacus”
when the production - then
the most expensive ever
mounted in the United i
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revolt in ancient Rome,
included some footage
shot by the original
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Former NU law
student takes on
U.S. government
By Christopher Heine
Staff writer
It is only a silent, back-and-forth, eight-step rou
tine, but Tom Manthey didn’t take long to find an
audience for his daily performance of “subliminal
advertising.”
Most likely everyone in Lincoln has seen the 5
foot, 9-inch bearded and long-haired Manthey at
least once since he began pacing areas near the
Robert V. Denney Federal Building and U.S.
Courthouse.
And he got the attention of Lincoln Police
Department almost immediately.
“The first day I came out here the cops were on
me in five minutes,” he said. “I suppose it didn’t help
that all of my messages that day were about the
police.
“I didn’t want those goons to think they were
above any of this.”
Manthey didn’t get arrested that day, Oct. 6,
1997, just questioned by the Lincoln police for his
unusual, T-shirt driven occupation on the comer at
17™ and O streets. And the 36-year-old Lincoln
native has rotated about the four comers of the down
town federal building ever since. v i
Why was he out there thep, and why is he out
there now?
The answer best lies in an incident he observed
two days before his confrontation with the police
' back in ’97.
Manthey said a small group of Muslim women,
children and old men holding protest signs were dri
ven off the Capitol building steps because they didn’t
have a permit to protest
He said he found the police action and the legis
lation backing it up to be insulting as a free citizen of
a country known for. its freedoms.
“We live in a country where you need to purchase
a permit to tell the truth,” Manthey said.
The incident inspired the former University of
Nebraska law student to present scrambled messages
while sidestepping strict Lincoln ordinances con
cerning political demonstrations by periodically
changing his protest post.
His “advertisements” are bold-faced, multicol
ored Magic Marker, one-word phrases stacked like
pancakes on his extra-large T-shirt, which he has
been wearing over a heavy coat all winter.
Manthey said wearing a T-shirt is the only way to
legally express criticism of the government in public
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TOM MANTHEY stands on the comer of 15th and P Streets advertising his opinion on his T-shirt.
Manthey has been silently expressing his views around the Federal building since October 1907.
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TV special
showcases
native culture
By Diane Broderick
Staff writer
What “Riverdance” did for Celtic
heritage, “Spirit” does for the
American Indian legacy, says its cre
ator.
“Spirit: A Journey in Dance,
Drums and Song” is a combination of
music, dance and American Indian
chants that features more than 80 per
formers.
It premiered in Green Bay, Wis.,
more than a year ago, and tonight at 9
the Nebraska ETV Network will air
the performance.
“Spirit” explores the search for
renewal in a world fraught with time
constraints and electronic traps, said
“Spirit” creator and composer Peter
Buffett, who will be in the studio dur
ing the broadcast to talk about his
work.
People are too busy, and they are
always being told what to do, where to
go, how to do it “with phones and
faxes and everything else,” Buffett
said.
, “It’s about somebody stopping
and saying, ‘Wait, what’s the point?”’
Choreographed by Wayne
Cilento, best known for his Tony
Award-winning work on The Who’s
“Tommy,” the show begins with
dancers dressed in suits with cell
phones.
Soon, after a song titled “Urban
Overture,” the dancers lose the suits
and become immersed in American
Indian culture.
What Buffett wants people to
walk away with is a greater under
standing of how to relate to people
within their family, the community
and the world.
Buffett, son of billionaire Omaha
investor Warren Buffett, is not new to
working with American Indian music.
His compositions have appeared in
“Dances with Wolves” and “The
Scarlet Letter.”
His interest in the culture came
after doing some simple research, he
said.
“What interested me was not
some historical look at Native
Americans, but how we came so close
to missing out on a lot of things their
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