by the way, there was a hidden gem in the article linked in that last post. and it went a little something like this (hit it) -
“The success of The Jerk opened more doors for [Steve] Martin. Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut).”
and a single tear wells and slides down into my beard, for what might have been.