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Check out this article on BBook.com: http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-new-comeback-kid-tony-kaye The New Comeback Kid: Tony Kaye By Nick Haramis Click here to read our full interview with Tony Kaye! Kaye, left, Mercer Hotel, New York City. Tony Kaye was born in London in 1952, but people don’t talk about this history. No, his trajectory begins with a very public falling out with Edward Norton and New Line Cinema over the final cut of neo-Nazi drama American History X. Following its debut in Toronto in 1998, an enraged Kaye took out 35 pages of scathing ads in Hollywood trade papers, slamming the film and its major players. He considered changing his name to Humpty Dumpty, to mess with the film’s billing. He fell in (and then out) with Marlon Brando, in a strange series of events that involved classes for liars and an Osama Bin Laden costume. He stopped speaking on the telephone altogether. But, as they say, time seems to heal all wounds. With Lake of Fire—Kaye’s first feature since “the most publicized battle over final cut in Hollywood, ever"—he returned to his controversial roots with a two-and-a-half-hour documentary about abortion. Mixed in with esoteric ethics from thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz, the film documents some of the most chilling images ever captured by a video recorder—frozen fetuses, religious rally fervor, and the entire procedure as it happens. www.bbook.com