David Macdowell is like that too.
Andie Macdowell is the guy from Planet of the Apes.
Malcolm Macdowell thought it up,
and Kubrick liked it so much that they bought the rights to the song just so they could keep it in the film.
Macdowell explained that,
in contrast to them, the destroyed Cosmos-2491 did not change its orbit and, apparently, completed its mission in 2014, continuing to remain there until its death.
When Macdowell informed Kubrick about the inconsistency, Kubrick allegedly
checked his records and told Macdowell that he paid him for one week because the other week had been ping-pong games.
After the two weeks' worth of voiceover
work for A Clockwork Orange was finished, Macdowell was told by his agent six months later
that he had only been paid for one week.
When filming this scene, Malcolm Macdowell's eyes really were forced to stay open for
long periods of time, and Macdowell ended up scratching the cornea of his left eye during the shoot.
According to Macdowell himself, he and Kubrick would play games to ease
tension in between the voiceover work for the film, and it was usually ping-pong, which Macdowell allegedly always won(even as Kubrick thrashed him during chess games).