This Week >> 10/30/2008
Join us this week on Let's Travel! for tips on running a marathon from Ann Wells Crandall, the SVP of the New York Road Runners club. Ann will also give us an insight to the world of internatioanal marathons of which the NYRR is a supporting member. You'll be fascinated to learn about the business of organizing them. They are truly a world apart. Then it's on to Czarist Russia with Professor Barry Goldsmith who teaches architectural history and design at New York University and is the host of TV series on Public Broadcasting System in the U.S. and the British Broadcasting Corporation in England. Professor Goldsmith will then put on his "humor hat" and talk about his experiences with such comedians as Joan Rivers. Running, Russia and Ribald Humor all this week on Let's Travel!
Guests
New York Roadrunners
In her role, Ann Wells Crandall oversees driving revenue and long term strategic relationships through business and marketing solutions to grow NYRR's key business units; Sponsorship revenue and marketing programs for the ING NYC Marathon and fifty-five other NYRR road racing events, merchandise and licensing, membership and classes, international travel partners and NYRR's Charity Program. Responsibilities include developing, managing and executing 60+ sponsorships, determining the pricing and packaging and ultimately managing the relationships between NYRR and approximately for 80+ international travel partners, broadening NYRR's brand and its sub brands (i.e. ING NYC Marathon, NYC Half-Marathon and NYRR's Consulting and Marketing Services) and developing ancillary business opportunities for NYRR such as NYRR Trainer, an online training program for the ING NYC Marathon and sampling programs surrounding NYRR events. Prior to joining New York Road Runners, Ann was a Senior Director at the NBA for five years responsible for Business Development for the Marketing Partnerships and Programming divisions focusing on the Direct Broadcast Satellite Direct to Home and Commercial businesses & the Magazine and Book Publishing business units.
New York University
From Barry:
I'm 46 years old, which is the exact same age Lenin was, when he was 46.
I am a high-school dropout. (I had early admission to Princeton). Graduated from Rutgers at 18 with a year at the Sorbonne's Ecole des Beaux Arts. Two masters from Columbia -- architectural history and architectural design.
After graduation, I worked at an architecture firm in the late 80's for $260 a week designing drain pipes. Read in the NY POST that Joan Rivers was starting a talk show from NYC. I figured that I was in the gutter anyway, so I thought I would write for her.
How I go the job writing and doing Man in the Street on the Joan Rivers Show -- Sent her my Phi Beta Kappa Key and told her that with hers PBK key, she can have earrings made. But she had to read the material I wrote on spec. I did. And I wrote for her show and others.
I also wrote a sitcome: Fab Rehab for the BBC in the mid-90's and was a consultant on the BBC's Noel's House Party
I have been teaching at New York University for 10 years. At first humor and now humor and architecture. What does architecture have to do with humor? "I'm off the wall."
To read a past article in the New York Times written by Barry Goldsmith, click here