Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side - This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmaker8212for the first time Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, and others, has always been depicted by the media as the Howard Hughes of filmmakers, a weird artist obsessed with his work and privacy to the point of madness But who was he really? Emilio DAlessandro lets us see A former Formula Ford driver who was a minicab chauffeur in London during the Swinging Sixties, he took a job driving a giant phallus through the city that became his introduction to the director Honest, reliable, and ready to take on any task, Emilio found his way into Kubricks neurotic, obsessive heart He became his personal assistant, his righthand man and confidant, working for him from A Clockwork Orange until Kubricks death in 1999 Emilio was the silent guy in the room when the script for The Shining was discussed He still has the coat Jack Nicholson used in the movie He was an extra on the set of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubricks last movie He knew all the actors and producers Kubrick worked with he observed firsthand Kubricks working methods down to the smallest detail Making no claim of expertise in cinematography but with plenty of anecdotes, he offers a completely fresh perspective on the artist and a warm, affecting portrait of a generous, kind, caring man who was a perfectionist in work and life The paperback edition has a new foreword by Matthew Modine, who is featuredin the book and starred as Private Joker in Kubricks Full Metal Jacket