Doctor's Orders
How a dead serious novel became the nightmare satire of Strangelove
by Bilge Ebiri
posted May 26, 2009
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Doctor's Orders

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Stanley Kubrick | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | adaptation | Hollywood | Cold War | Peter George | Mick Broderick | Terry Southern | comedyTHE AUTHOR
Bilge Ebiri writes about film for New York magazine and Bookforum. He is also the director of the feature film New Guy (2003).
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