Why '2001: A Space Odyssey' still has our attention 50 years later

When "2001: A Space Odyssey" premiered, its early audiences didn't see the future. They saw red. The film was shown on April 3, 1968, at Times Square's Loews Capitol Theater for an invited audience of 1,500 studio executives, media bigwigs and celebrities, including Paul Newman, Gloria Vanderbilt and Henry Fonda. As the two-hour-plus film unspooled,...