John Kaye

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 A graduate of UC Berkeley Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show a latenite 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 McClean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kaye licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia