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Archive: May 1, 2001


Word
Another Perspective
Board Flow
Board Flow
Spotopsy
W+K Shox viewers
Chiat/Day Goes to Kmart
Ideas
Red Cell Brandstorms
On the Spot
India Carnate
Special Report: Top Live-Action Directors
Dante Ariola
Federico Brugia
Dom & Nic
Jonathan Glazer
Phil Joanou
Mike Mills
Ivan Zacharias
Ringan Ledwidge
Erich Joiner
Richard D'Alessio
Special Feature: Latin America
Publicly Traded Publicidad
Ready For ...
Boards uncovers five ...
Raucous from Caracas
Animating Brazil
Spot Shopping
Mia's Battle Plan
Bosco&Jojo Head to Flehner
Special Report: Interactive
A/V Club
Bulletin Board
White and Brown Start ...
Fatboy Slim's Weapon of ...
Renck Fills the Gap
NSF Checks Compass
Wave Twisted Directors
BMW Drives Online Film ...
Ricagni Opens Babilonya
Morris Defines Refinery
de Wit Wins Oscar For ...
iNTELEFILM Gets ...
Crossroads Films Creates ...
Tony Kaye: ...
frozen man -- hungry city
Inventory
A look at who's making ...
Learning Curve
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Tony Kaye: Director/Actor/Rock Star
by: May 1, 2001 Print

Tony Kaye has come a long way since Jeff Stark and Paul Arden catapulted his directing career into the stratosphere of commercial production back in 1987, handing Kaye a British Rail commercial from their then creative surroundings of Saatchi's in London.

"I took all the money that they gave me, spent every penny on the shoot and didn't keep any cash for myself," says Kaye, who then went on to further sharpen his directing career in commercials in addition to American History X. "Since then I've had a mixture of great success, enormous adulation and hit rock-bottom a couple of times along the way."

Kaye is more relaxed these days, auditioning for small acting gigs as well as starting an upcoming tour with his band TKO. "I'm a director but it's great to experience what an actor experiences," says Kaye. "It's fantastic and exhilarating just to be someone else. I was just up against Joe Pesci for the part of a mentally retarded man in an upcoming Penn movie. I'm totally up for being cast in commercials, so if there's a need for an eccentric-looking, 48-year-old man I'm totally game. For example, I know that I can do a mentally retarded man, a director of porn or a failing, aging rock star." Rock on, Tony!


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