From the 2001 topic in the 1960s folder, a message I wrote about 4 years ago:

I never met Kubrick, much to my regret. When I was in college, I had flipped over LOLITA and DR. STRANGELOVE, so when I heard he was planning a science fiction movie, I sent a note--I don't remember how I obtained the address--suggesting some writers. He responded by saying he'd already connected with one I probably heard of: Arthur C. Clarke. The night I first saw 2001, which was opening night here in L.A., I wrote a very impassioned and long letter, mailed the next day. Later, I received that letter in which he said my enthusiasm for the film pleased him, and that my thoughts on it came the closest of any he'd read so far to what he had in mind. I got one more letter after that; I failed to save that most important letter, but I do have the last one, glued into my hardback copy of the 2001 novel. I later learned he almost NEVER answered fan mail.