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You may have noticed it can be quite confusing to be Tony Scott. Take the film maker and I. We were both born in 1944, just a month and less than 100 miles apart, both in the North of England (one on each side of the Pennines). We both went to our local art colleges (in the same year!), and we both badly wanted to make films. I even applied to study film at art college. He didn't, and he made a lot more films than I did. There's a moral there, somewhere!

One fun aspect of being Tony Scott, I was teaching as a visiting professor in the art school at Ohio University. Ohio University has a top-ten film school. I kept getting these phone calls from young French ladies with sexy voices, looking to do anything to get a bit part! I was Tony Scott. We did have a film school. But they were looking for the other guy.

Tony Scott, a great jazz musician, was always asking for my web site name. He ended up with www.tonyscott.it, which isn't so reliable. Felt a little guilty about that. I played saxophone, too - like Ronnie Scott - but just in the school band!

I think there are actually TWO other Tony Scott's who are programmers. When I was Advisory Teacher for Computing Across the Curriculum at Croydon I was always getting my wires crossed with Tony Scott, an IT manager who lived in Purley, a suburb of Croydon. Not to forget that Tony Scott, CIO for Microsoft, was involved with Disney for a while. I think, when I was teaching computer animators at Ohio State university, he poached one of my very best students to run Disney's animator training. (She should still finish her PhD!)

I trained as a painter and wood engraver, practiced in theater design and photography: Tony Scott, Artist, has an interesting but somewhat dissimilar portfolio; Tony Scott, Comic, I claim no similar talent, I cannot even tell a joke; and Tony Scott, Pastor, would have been exactly my mother's wish for my ultimate career. Now, as it happens, in my church (not hers) all adult males have the possibility of fulfilling priestly obligations!

Another thing I'm falling short on. But it is a tough job living in the shadow of all these over-achievers!


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