Were Thinko, Hal 9000, and "Sex Kittens", Kubrick's Cryptoslapstick Influences?...

"SEX KITTENS TO TO COLLEGE"...........trashy 'drive-in movie', sexist humor from 1960......  which introduced me to Martin Milner and, on TV that year,  his portrayal of Todd Styles in ROUTE 66......  and my first views of a chimpanzee, playing a piano...with its hind feet....or are those prehensile 'feet'......hands?   

AFTER WATCHING 'THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER'....WHICH HAS LOTS OF NOSTALGIA BUTTONS ON THE WALLS OF MY MEMORY CIRCUITS......

I RECALLED 'GOING TO BIRMINGHAM, ALA.....WITH MY FATHER.....PURPORTELY, TO WATCH AN 'ALABAMA/AUBURN' FOOTBALL GAME, THAT I HAD ZERO INTEREST IN.......I LEFT THE STADIUM PARKING LOT, SELLING MY TICKET FOR A ROUNDTRIP CABFARE AND WENT 'DOWNTOWN' FOR A MOVIE, INSTEAD........THE MOVIE? JOHN HUSTON'S  "THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER" ......TODAY, RETROSPECTIVELY, RESEARCHING BURT LANCASTER'S LIFE STORY  I CAME ACROSS THIS SITE ON THE INTERNET:   

https://mubi.com/en/films/the-list-of-adrian-messenger/cast

then, spent a couple of hours....clicking on the images of its cast and creative team.....all of whom were on my 'A' list when I was 17......and READY to get out into the World and discover 'what it's all about'.....

a year later:    

https://movingnostalgia.blogspot.com/2022/02/on-finding-photo-of-antonius-in-box.html

Guy Madden's "The Saddest Music in the World" | English Full Movie | (Comedy Musical ?)

"Hitting a new high" - Filme Completo / 1937

ELVA SPANGENBERG ........."SPEEGEE"

a 'memory' of Elva sprang up this morning........I remember getting tickets from Elva Spangenberg, fondly called "Speegee" at the artsy Rhodes Theater, that was a few blocks....walking distance.... from my apartment at 'The Manor' on P'tree St.......When the Theater's lease was not renewed, Speegee...then in her 90's....was out of work!.....Undaunted, in her 90's, she got a job working for my friend, Ronnie Mitchell, who had opened an antiques store, The Buccaneer, across from Mary Mac's Tea Room.......Speegee once said to me, "this antique store is a hotbed of sex!......but, it's a job!".....She was in her late 90's then....and 'lived' until she was 107! I went to so many 'movies' then....often viewing 6 a week.....that, a few times, in my 20's I was 'pressed for "Culture-Cash"'.....Speegee, noting my many visits to The Rhoades, would sometimes whisper, as she handed me an admittance ticket, 'keep your money, young man....the Theater's only a fourth full, and the movie sucks!'.......[i.e. a 'free' double feature, in air conditioning, on a hot, muggy summer day....rather than sweating in my top story un-air-conditioned abode......]

https://tomitronics.com/elva/index.html