Friday, May 20, 2011
TV legend Steve Tatone returns
By Jim Bucher, WDTN
DAYTON, OH (WDTN-WBDT) - Steve Tatone has been a TV pitchman for his auto dealership in Fairborn and the co-founder of 'Holiday Aid' an organization that raises money for the hungry and a concert promoter...
http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/news/buchers_beat/tv-legend-steve-tatone-returns
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Locally-shot film makes ‘Beautiful Noise’
By Wade Tatangelo, Bradenton Herald
Steve Tatone walked the white sands of Siesta Key just as he had done countless times since childhood.
An old favorite, Neil Diamond’s 1976 semi-autobiographical album “Beautiful Noise,” played in his head
Inspiration hit...
Saturday, April 24, 2011
'Beautiful Noise' success leads to more film ventures
By Jay Handelman, Herald-Tribune
SARASOTA - Six sold-out screenings of his first film "Beautiful Noise" at the Sarasota Film Festival is driving Steve Tatone to pursue a multitude of film, television and stage projects inspired by the movie.
The film had more screenings than any other film in festival history and "about one in four people bought the soundtrack CD," said Tatone...
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110424/BREAKING/110429706?p=1&tc=pg
Saturday, April 9, 2011
First “Beautiful Noise” screening creates a beautiful noise - applause
By Carrie Seidman, Herald-Tribune
The first of six sold-out screenings of Steve Tatone’s “Beautiful Noise” at the Sarasota Film Festival Saturday night ended with a noise that’s a beautiful sound to any filmmaker hoping to find a distributor — applause...
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Sarasota fest fuels visions of a local ‘Hollywood’
By Michael Pollick, Herald-Tribune
They are serving up something more than celebrity sightings and outdoor cocktails at this year's Sarasota Film Festival.
For the first time, the festival will feature a made-in-Sarasota movie that has a great shot at distribution.
Layer that on top of other film activity in Southwest Florida, and you might have the beginnings of what economic developers call a cluster: businesses in the same industry that develop synergies and attract even more players and jobs.
Think Silicon Valley, or Arthur Andersen's former Sarasota County operations, or this region's concentration of so-called "employee leasing" firms... http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110402/ARTICLE/110409919/2416/NEWS?Title=Sarasota-fest-fuels-visions-of-a-local-Hollywood
Saturday, April 2, 2011
A look at a movie, from the inside
By Steven J. Smith, Herald-Tribune Correspondent
SARASOTA - Before I was ever a writer here in Southwest Florida I was, and still remain, a professional actor.
So, after auditioning on a whim last summer for Steve Tatone's new film "Beautiful Noise," I was delighted to learn I had landed the role of record producer Mick Jonas in the movie.
"Beautiful Noise," shot completely in Sarasota and South Florida, tells the story of a free-spirited young singer in search of a reclusive, aging pop-rock icon from the 1960s. It stars Danielle White as Dez, the young singer, Kimber Cleveland as Candy, her rocker friend, and Jay White as Noah, the reclusive pop star. My character, loosely based on legendary record producer Rick Rubin, serves as a link between the three, helping to launch Candy's career and resurrect Noah's.
After principal filming was completed last fall, Tatone submitted the movie to the Sarasota Film Festival, which granted it an unprecedented six screenings at this year's event at Hollywood 20 theater.... http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110402/ARTICLE/110409914/2416/NEWS
Thursday, March 31, 2011
‘Beautiful Noise’ makes a splash at the Sarasota Film Festival
By Alyssa Holcomb, Herald-Tribune
Steve Tatone has spent more than 25 years working in television and concert promotion, but he was ready to try something different — making a movie.
He knew that “the best and quickest way to get involved in the business is to write something.”
That something has turned into “Beautiful Noise,” a musical drama that will have its world premiere Saturday at the Sarasota Film Festival, one of six screenings for a film made primarily in Sarasota....
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The noisemaker
By Heidi Kurpiela, The Observer
Steve Tatone’s voice is hoarse.
Blame it on the fact that it’s 7 a.m., and Tatone spent 18 hours of the previous day in a Los Angeles studio mixing his film, “Beautiful Noise,” in Dolby Surround Sound.
And what beautiful noise it was. It gave the 55-year-old writer/director goose bumps. Suddenly, his little independent film seemed bigger. Louder. More polished. Even his unknown cast — far less famous than the celebrities passing through L.A.’s coffee shops in oversized sunglasses — sounded like superstars.
Suddenly the distance between Sarasota and Hollywood seemed shorter. Tatone had bridged it with one, 93-minute musical drama about an aging pop star living in the Myakka woods, a story he conceived more than two years ago while pacing the shores of Siesta Key Beach...
http://www.yourobserver.com/news/longboat-key/A-and-E/0330201111004/The-noisemaker