Lunch with Dr. Ruth at Sardi’s

Dr Ruth
Dr Ruth

This could be a whole lot of fun. And, the winning bid supports the East Hampton Library.

From Charity Buzz:

Delight in an unforgettable lunch for you and your 3 favorite people with Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the beloved Sardi’s Restaurant in New York City. Warning: your friends will be clamoring for this invite!

Dr. Ruth Westheimer is the psychosexual therapist who helped pioneer the field of media psychology with her radio program, Sexually Speaking. It began in September of 1980 as a 15 minute, taped show that aired Sundays after midnight on WYNY-FM (NBC) in New York. One year later it became a live, one-hour show airing at 10 pm on which Dr. Ruth, as she became known, answered call-in questions from listeners. Soon, it became part of a communications network to distribute Dr. Westheimer’s expertise, which has included television, books, newspapers, games, home video, computer software and her own website, DrRuth.com.

Bid, but beware. Dr. Ruth isn’t known for her polite, lunchtime chatter. I leave you with two of her quotes:

When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.

and

It’s not a competition. No penis can duplicate the vibrations of the vibrator.

Bid. Win. And order the steak tartare—she’s sure to question your choice of meat.

By Stephen Brockelman

As a Sr. Writer at T. Rowe Price, I work with a group of the best copywriters around. We belong to the broader creative team within Enterprise Creative, a part of Corporate Marketing Services. _____________________________________________ A long and winding road: My path to T. Rowe Price was more twisted than Fidelity’s green line. With scholarship in hand, I left Kansas at 18 to study theatre in New York. When my soap opera paychecks stopped coming from CBS and started coming from the show’s sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, I discovered the power of advertising and switched careers. Over the years I’ve owned an ad agency in San Francisco; worked for Norman Lear on All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and the rest of his hit shows; and as a member of Directors Guild of America, I directed Desi Arnaz in his last television appearance— we remained friends until his death. In 1988 I began freelancing full time didn’t look back. In January 2012 my rep at Boss Group called and said, “I know you don’t want to commute and writing for the financial industry isn’t high on your wish list, but I have a gig with T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills…” I was a contractor for eight months, drank the corporate Kool-Aid, became a TRP associate that August, and today I find myself smiling more often than not.

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