where is art smith from?
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 Smith relocated from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1999 , taking up residence at a cabin in the Silver Lake section of town . That fall , his cover of The Beatles ' " Because " was featured in the end credits of DreamWorks ' Oscar @-@ winning drama American Beauty , and also appeared on the film 's soundtrack album . 

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 An emancipated slave from America who becomes the blacksmith of Jungle Village . He channels an ancient energy to turn himself into a living weapon . His name is Thaddeus Henry Smith . RZA wrote the role specifically for himself , and trained in Hung Ga for 1 – 2 hours a day over 2 months in preparation . 

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 The book recounts how Erhard 's childhood events , job positions and self @-@ education lead to the development of the est training . Born Jack Rosenberg , Erhard was an inquisitive child who was close to his mother . In his student years , he read profusely and earned superior grades . As a teenager , Eerhard experienced both conflicts with his mother and a growing dissatisfaction with his life . Shortly after graduating from high school he married his girlfriend Pat Campbell , who had become pregnant . Instead of pursuing his plans for higher education , he took on a variety of jobs including meat @-@ packing , heating and plumbing , estimating and selling cars . By the age of 21 , Erhard had become the top car salesman at the dealership he worked for . By the time he was 25 , Erhard and his wife had four children and he was feeling increasingly restless and constrained . He formed a friendship with a woman named June Bryde , which gradually deepened into an affair . He secretly arranged a flight from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania with June in 1960 , leaving behind his wife and their four children , who would not hear from him for twelve years . The couple settled for a time in St Louis , and it was at this time that he changed his name to Werner Erhard with June changing hers to Ellen Erhard . After more work in car sales , Erhard joined the sales staff of Parents Magazine and was rapidly promoted to training manager and eventually appointed Vice @-@ President in 1967 . During this period Erhard moved frequently to different parts of the US as dictated by the demands of the job , finally settling in San Francisco . When Parents Magazine was sold to the Time @-@ Life group , he was recruited by the Grolier Society as Divisional Manager . According to Grolier vice @-@ president John Wirtz the intention of appointing Erhard was that he would bring “ integrity , honesty and straightforwardness ” to their sales practices . 

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 Smithers is Mr. Burns ' devoted executive assistant . His father , Waylon Smithers , Sr. , worked for Burns until he died of radiation poisoning after saving Springfield from a potential nuclear meltdown , when Smithers was a baby . Although he is not openly gay , Smithers frequents Springfield 's gay village and goes on a vacation to a male @-@ only resort . It was revealed in a flashback that he was married to a woman once , but the two split up when Mr. Burns came between them . Smithers is shown to have a passionate and deep love for Mr. Burns , and his sexual orientation has been characterized by the writers of the show as " Burns @-@ sexual " . 

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 In 1961 , Smith moved to MIT as an Institute Professor with appointments in both the Departments of Humanities and Metallurgy . His focus was to transplant the techniques of metallurgy into the study of the production methods used to create artefacts discovered by archaeologists such as samurai swords . In his role of teaching the history of science , he argued that important advances were often the result of curiosity rather than the pursuit of defined goals . He was interested in the scientific aspects of fine arts , and published several works linking the arts with the sciences . He lectured about this at the Smithsonian Institution 's Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington , DC . 
