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Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button. Published Date: 20 July 2008 STANLEY KUBRICK'S BOXES More4 Monday, 5pm TIGER SPY IN THE JUNGLE BBC HD Monday, 9pm THE THIRTIES IN COLOUR BBC 4 Wednesday, 9pm IN AN age where celebrity is seen as a goal unto itself there's something laudable about the late Stanley Kubrick's refusal to play the fame game. Eschewing the red-carpet escapades of modern celebrity he retreated into the private fiefdom of his Hertfordshire estate. And, as the gaps between his films became longer, the rumours about his antics grew ever stranger. Some claimed he was filming a story about a child's journey to manhood and beyond, tracking his star's growth in real time by shooting for only a few days each year. Another apocryphal tale had him begging the BBC to let him... [read full story]