John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist
and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American
Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam.
He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie
Griffith and Patrick Swayze. His novels Stars Scremaing (1997) and The
Dead Circus (2002) were published by the Atlantic Monthly/Grove Press.
A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The
Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show
that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971.
A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T.
Nelson, John Amos, and McLean Stevenson their first jobs in the
entertainment business. In 2012, The Los Angeles Review of Books began
publishing his memoirs.
and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American
Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam.
He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie
Griffith and Patrick Swayze. His novels Stars Scremaing (1997) and The
Dead Circus (2002) were published by the Atlantic Monthly/Grove Press.
A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The
Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show
that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971.
A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T.
Nelson, John Amos, and McLean Stevenson their first jobs in the
entertainment business. In 2012, The Los Angeles Review of Books began
publishing his memoirs.
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