Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 140. Chapters: Stanley Kubrick, Jennifer Lopez, Sonia Sotomayor, Anne Hutchinson, Woody Allen, Colin Powell, Billy Joel, Gray Davis, Eric Holder, Michael Savage, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliot Spitzer, Mary J. Blige, Don DeLillo, Phil Spector, Al Pacino. Excerpt: Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, were noted for their "dazzling" and unique cinematography, attention to details to achieve realism and an inspired use of music scores. Kubrick's films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging and working closely with his actors. Starting out as a photographer in New York City, he taught himself all aspects of film production and directing after graduating from high school. His earliest films were made on a shoestring budget, followed by one Hollywood blockbuster, Spartacus, after which he spent most of the rest of his career living and filming in the United Kingdom. His home became his workplace where he did his writing, research, editing and management of production details. This allowed him to have almost complete artistic control, but with the rare advantage of having financial support from major Hollywood studios. Many of his films broke new ground in cinematography, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a science-fiction film which director Steven Spielberg called his generation's "big bang," with innovative visual effects and scientific realism, For Barry Lyndon (1975) Kubrick designed lenses to film scenes under natural candlelight and The Shining (1980)...