The institution was the result of an unexpected bequest from English naturalist James Smithson, who left his estate (in the event his nephew and heir died without heirs) to a country he had never visited for the purpose of creating, "under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." After Smithson's nephew died without children in 1836, Congress authorized acceptance of the gift, and President Andrew Jackson sent diplomat
Richard Rush to England to collect the funds.
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Though on stage and on screen a certain drunken grandiloquence continued to inform many of his greatest performances--like that of a washed-up Hollywood swashbuckler in 1982's "My Favorite Year" (which earned O'Toole the seventh of his eight actor Oscar nominations); a egomaniacal movie director in
Richard Rush's "The Stunt Man" (1980); and the real Spectator journalist Jeffrey Bernard in the 1989 West End play "Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell."
The announcement was made by
Richard Rush of Woodbridge Plaza LLC, the owner, and Robert Carson, Levin's vice president of operations."
"When a company's really small, the engineer talks to the buyer and the buyer calls the vendor," said
Richard Rush, who's in charge of business development for Eksigent Technologies, a maker of inexpensive microfluidic pumps in Dublin, Calif.
In view of von Trier's past vanities and excesses, one can see how he might feel the need to atone, to make a clean break lest he wind up a nut-job self-caricature like the megalomaniacal director in The Stunt Man (
Richard Rush's cryptoparodistic sleight-of-hand film [1978/80], which might be the unacknowledged source of von Trier's delusion-and-reality brinkmanship).
The agreement was contained in an exchange of notes in Washington, D.C., between
Richard Rush, acting secretary of state, and Charles Bagot, the British minister to the U.S.
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Born in North Hollywood, Rocco started his career at age 15 assisting director
Richard Rush during production of "The Stunt Man."
The announcement was made by
Richard Rush, of Woodbridge Plaza LLC, the owner, and Robert Carson, Levin's vice president of operations."
Bishop himself--who stole several such vintage chestnuts, notably "Angel Unchained" and
Richard Rush's above-average "The Savage Seven"--plays Pistolero, president of the Victors.
During the 1960s, Kovacs shot exploitation films ("The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill"), period curios ("Mondo Mod") and four
Richard Rush low-budgeters--"A Man Called Dagger," "Hell's Angels on Wheels," "Psych-Out" (both with Jack Nicholson) and "The Savage Seven." Kovacs and Rush subsequently worked together on "Getting Straight" and "Freebie and the Bean."