Autumn 2007 News
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If you’re looking for an elegant night on the town in New York City over the holidays, the Café Carlyle is the place to be. Darryl Tookes is backing up Steve Tyrell in an evening filled with exceptional arrangements of Burt Bacharach, Hal David and other Great American Songbook composer’s songs. Performances continue until New Year’s Eve Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:45 p.m. with an extra 10:45 p.m. performance Thursdays to Saturdays. Darryl and LaTanya. Hall will also perform on Mr. Tyrell’s upcoming album “Back to Bachrach” and will be his back up singers when he appears with the Nashville and Houston Symphony Orchestras in January 2008. Congratulations to Ernest Gaines! His Lesson Before Dying has been named to the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read for 2007-2008. Also, through the kindness and public spirit of NRG Energy, Mr. Gaines is available for live, interactive, real time, no delay presentations via Video Conferencing. TBE is privileged to represent Alfred Gerteiny. Professor Gerteiny’s talks, based on his splendid new book The Terrorist Conjunction: The United States, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and al-Qä’ida, help audiences better understand the complexities of terrorism, the persistent Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. I wanted to reveal what it is like to be a classic modern athlete, but also to understand that we must be careful not to stereotype any of these guys. I also wanted to show the other extreme, the athlete who devotes himself so to his game, even though he lacks great natural ability ... The delicate relationship between the [athlete and his manager]---one so blessed, the other so driven--is of the sort that is so deeply etched into sport.” Well over a year ago, Dennis Loy Johnson, co-founder of Melville House Publishing which was named by the Association of American Publishers as the winner of the 2007 Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing, asked Randall Kenan to write an homage to mark the 45th anniversary of James Baldwin’s epochal work The Fire Next Time. Initially Randall turned Dennis down, but Dennis prevailed. All of us who have followed Randall’s career as a fiction and non-fiction writer can be thankful! Now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with a new generation of Americans confronting what Baldwin called “our racial nightmare,” Randall Kenan has written a piercing consideration of the times and an impassioned call to transcend them. In The Fire This Time, Randall refuses the temptation to employ buzzwords, believing that they “create heat, not light.” He is the same in person when talking about Baldwin and contemporary society—thoughtful, displaying an erudition which is not showy, but disarmingly profound. If you are looking for a good discussion of race and class that allows frank and civilized exchange, with breathing room for a wry appreciation of the human condition, you could not invite a finer person. That he is also charming and fun just adds to the pleasure of having Randall Kenan on campus. In the November 12, 2005 New York Times “About New York: Where Grace Knows No Age and Startdust Is No Memory” Dan Barry wrote one of the loveliest newspaper stories ever published by the Times and Jemal Countess took a lyrical photograph of grace in motion. The subjects were dance legends Marge Champion and Donald Saddler. Still vibrant, dancing and at work, Marge and Donald are available for special events to give a presentation on Dance on Broadway and Hollywood—and will even re-create their famed dance number from Follies. They’ve been known to perform an encore! TBE has been working with the very talented Timothy D. Hillman for a long time and we are thrilled with his recent good fortune! Tim’s book, Behind the Walls: A Parents’ Guide to Boarding Schoolsis Amazon’s No. 1 best seller on boarding schools. Tim is now working as an Implementation Specialist with InResonance of Northampton, Massachusetts (www.InResonance.com) for whom he travels all over the country. When he started with InResonance this summer, he and they agreed it was a natural that Tim continue, at a separate fee, his My Space, Your Space, Whose Space workshops for parents and students, when and if time permitted and should a school be interested. Tanya Bickley, Tim’s longtime personal appearance agent, makes the arrangements for these workshops. Evan Weiner continues to be one of the best kept secrets in U.S. journalism today, but the news is getting out. He writes on Sport Business for MCNSports (www.mcnsports.com) and his weekly columns on “The Business of Sports” in The New York Sun are cutting edge. Check out www.nysun.com. Evan certainly gets around. In the last months he’s spoken at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M, the John F. Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University, and the Yogi Berra Museum. We are delighted to be working with Mary Bosrock, writer, lecturer and award winning expert on cross-cultural communication. In his recommendation for Mary’s European Business Customs & Manners, Keith Reinhard, Chairman Emeritus of DDB Worldwide, said, “Today more than ever, executives for American companies doing business outside the U.S. need to be culturally savvy world citizens—not only to be more successful but also to become better citizen diplomats at a time when resentment against our country is on the rise.” Mary’s Putting Your Best Foot Forward books and lectures on Asia, South America, Russia, Mexico/Canada, and the USA have helped thousands of business people. We congratulate Walter Bond on the tremendous strides he has made in his speaking career and recommend to you his upbeat and encouraging book, All Buts Stink! – How to Live Your Best Life and Eliminate Excuses. For Mr. Bond’s work with corporations, please look at our Authors and Speakers Section. Walter also visits schools to encourage minority students who have all it takes to make the grade and who also appreciate hearing survival and success skills from one who knows! Check out School Programs. |