Rick Provost
My blogs
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Construction |
| Occupation | Consultant |
| Location | Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | Rick is a principal in SMI Safety, a project safety staffing and consulting firm; and a guest columnist for Remodeling magazine and Cleaning & Restoration magazine. Previously he was the President and CEO of U.S. Structures, the franchisor company for the Archadeck network of design/build contractors in 30 states, Canada, the U.K. and Japan. |
| Favorite Movies | About A Boy, Amalie, A Man and a Woman, Babette’s Feast, Bagdad Café, The Band Wagon, Bend It like Beckham, Best in Show, The Big Lebowski, The Big Night, Bread & Tulips, Cinema Paradiso, The Commitments, Delicatessen, Dinner at 8, Eat Drink Man Woman, Election, Elizabeth, Fargo, Flirting with Disaster, The Gay Divorcee, Get Shorty, High Fidelity, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Local Hero, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lost in Translation, A Mighty Wind, Miss Firecracker, Monsoon Wedding, Mostly Martha, Mrs. Miniver, Nights of Cabiria, The Pajama Game, The Road to Wellville, Run Lola Run, Scarface (the 1932 original), Sexy Beast, Shall We Dance? (Japanese version), The Station Agent, Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear & Trembling), Strictly Ballroom, Tampopo, Topsy Turvey, Toy Story 3, The Triplets of Belleville, Waiting for Guffman, Waking Ned Devine, Yojimbo, Young Victoria |
| Favorite Music | Jazz (30's, 40's and 50's), Classical (Baroque and Romantic eras, Italian opera, and the classical guitar repertoire), Latin music (salsa, samba, mambo, fado, morna), American traditional (bluegrass & folk) |
| Favorite Books | The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Empire Falls & Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo, My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, John Adams by David McCullough, Krakatoa by Simon Winchester, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Sue Grafton's alphabet series, et al |