Peter Sellers said the Dr. Strangelove character wasn't based on Henry Kissinger, "that's a misconception - it's von Braun," referring to the rocket scientist sucked into the Nazi rocket program and, after the war, brought over to the U.S. and seen publicizing the rocket-building efforts with such personages as Walt Disney in ads and promotional appearances. When Stanley Kubrick later on called up some NASA scientists to help with the verisimilitude of "2001," some of them, of course, had worked with, under, and around von Braun, and the Jewish Kubrick was able to play off the previous film's rendering with wit and aplomb - winning them over, as accounts from *that* film's set can attest, to the point of giving him respect bordering on awe.
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