camera so that Dullea and Gary Lockwood (qv) could  react to them. Apparently, Stanley Kubrick (qv) thought that  Davenports English accent was too distracting, so after a few weeks  he dismissed him and for the remainder of the shoot HALs lines were  read by an assistant director who, according to Dullea, had a  Cockney accent so thick that lines like "Better take a stress pill,  Dave" came out like "Better tyke a stress pill, Dyve". Later Balsam  was hired and recorded HALs voice in New York, but again when  Kubrick heard his lines he wasnt satisfied, so he finally got Rain  to re