Patane, Joe 1970-

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PATANE, Joe 1970-

PERSONAL:

Born May 22, 1970, in New York, NY. Education: Fordham University, B.S. (management information systems and management; with honors), 1992, M.B.A. (strategic management with international business designation), 1996.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Joe's World Foundation, P.O. Box 8465, New York, NY 10116. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer, filmmaker, executive, and television personality. Fordham University, New York, NY, computer lab instructor, 1989-91, resident assistant, 1990-92, research assistant, 1991-92, graduate resident director, 1993-96; J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., New York, NY, business systems analyst, 1992-93; University of California at Berkeley, resident director, 1999-2000; School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, on staff, 2001-02; New School University, New York, NY, assistant resident director, 2002; Joe's World Foundation, founder, 2000—. Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, product representative, 1990-97. Cast member in The Real World: Miami, Music Television (MTV), 1992; cast member in Road Rules, MTV, 1996.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Alumni Association Award; USAA Computer Science Award.

WRITINGS:

Livin' in Joe's World: Unauthorized, Uncut, and Unreal; The Memoirs of Joe Patane from the Miami Cast of MTV's "The Real World," Harper-Perennial (New York, NY), 1998.

(With Germaine Niczewicz; and coproducer) Learn to Hip Hop (short film), Joe's World Foundation (New York, NY), 2001.

(And executive producer) Learn to Hip Hop: Volume 2 (short film), Joe's World Foundation (New York, NY), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

While MTV's The Real World gave Joe Patane a taste of fame, it was not a happy experience for him. When he was picked for the 1996 cast of the popular reality television series, he was told to sign a complex twenty-five-page contract and to be ready to fly to Miami in six days. There, he surrendered all privacy, although he didn't quite realize it at the time: calls to his girlfriend that he thought were unrecorded and outdoor conversations picked up by long-range microphone were fodder for the show's producers. Patane recounts his feelings in Livin' in Joe's World: Unauthorized, Uncut, and Unreal, an insider's look at the hit series and its effect on at least some cast members.

Some reviewers felt Patane simply got what he signed on for. Onion reviewer Keith Phipps noted that in Livin' in Joe's World the author's "main complaint seems to be that he was followed around by a camera crew … a fact that should not have surprised him assuming he had 1) stopped to think about what he was getting into, and 2) ever seen an episode of the show before." According to Patane, however, the show's producers went much further, "manipulating its cast, altering the chronology of events and staging entire sequences," as reviewer Randy Cohen reported in the New York Times Book Review. For Patane, the entire experience remains a bitter memory.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Patane, Joe, Livin' in Joe's World: Unauthorized, Uncut, and Unreal; The Memoirs of Joe Patane from the Miami Cast of MTV's "The Real World," Harper-Perennial (New York, NY), 1998.