treat's renaissance man

“The most important thing in acting is honesty,” George Burns once said. “If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

Projecting honesty out the wazoo, Kevin Bourland has cruis ed as a commercial actor over the past 15 years, appear ing in more than 200 ads (special izing in “dad stuff”) and a few movies. But he really wanted to jump to commercial direct ing—a highly unusual move. “If you’re an actor in TV or features, and you start direct ing, you’re considered a Renai ssance man,” he says.