Dawidziak’s Jim Tully becomes film documentary

Mark Wade Stone

Local film producer Mark Wade Stone has done a documentary based on  “Road Kid to Writer: The Tracks of Jim Tully,” a documentary based on “Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler,” the 2011 biography of the former Kent resident, by former Beacon Journal  and current Plain Dealer critic Mark Dawidziak and Kent’s Paul J. Bauer.

Kent State Press will package Minneapolis native Stone’s documentary DVD and Dawidziak’s Tully book and WNEO/WEAO (Channels 45/49) may televise it.

Stone interviewed Dawidziak and Bauer to set up the framework for the DVD.

To read the article by Rich Heldenfels, who succeeded Dawidziak as the BJ’s TV critic, click on http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/books/heldenfiles-producer-brings-local-books-to-screen-1.487142