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A Clash of Symbols.(video recordings; Howard Hawks)(Scarface; Land of the Pharaohs; Rio Bravo; El Dorado)(Video recording review)
The director Howard Hawks (1896-1977), the cinematic kin to his friend Ernest Hemingway, evoked with spare visual rhetoric the stern tests of valor that defined his romantic heroes. A spate of new DVD releases and reissues reveal how Hawks obsessively reworked his personal mythology of sex and power throughout his long career.
Hawks's gangster classic "Scarface" (Universal), from 1932, tells the harshly realistic yet deftly stylized Prohibition-era story of the rise and fall of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), a gaudy Chicago hit man who exerts his will to power with breezy good cheer. His rage is reserved for keeping his eighteen-year-old sister (Ann Dvorak) from other men, including his sidekick, Guino (George Raft). Yet Camonte's most intimate relationship is with his meek, illiterate "secretary," Angelo (Vince Barnett): when Guino catches Tony clutching the barrel of Angelo's gun, the collective look of embarrassment suggests all that Hawks couldn't say.
The equally bilious "Land of the Pharaohs" (Warners), from 1955, depicts horrific violence inflicted in ancient Egypt in the name of a belief system. Pharaoh (Jack Hawkins) coerces an enslaved architect to build an impregnable tomb--a pyramid--to preserve his plundered riches for the afterlife. The colossal project's completion requires predatory exactions, but the Cypriot princess (Joan Collins) whom Pharaoh took first as a tribute ...
- El Dorado Hills EL DORADO SELLS.(housing)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data...
- Magazine article from: Sacramento Business Journal Marquand, Barbara November 24, 2000 700+ words
...happened to spend a weekend with a friend in El Dorado Hills. "We looked around," he recalls...helping to fuel the new-home market in El Dorado Hills, among the Sacramento region's residential construction hot spots. "El Dorado Hills is becoming the Alamo and Danville...
- El Dorado Hospital will close Aug. 18; Jan. reopening likely.
- Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) August 5, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Jane Erikson Aug. 5--El Dorado Hospital will close in two weeks...Center, said in May it would close El Dorado by the end of the year. But on Friday the parent organization said El Dorado will close Aug. 18, to make it easier...
- Largest employers in El Dorado County. (Top 25 List).(list of the top employers...
- Magazine article from: Sacramento Business Journal November 23, 2001 700+ words
Largest employers in El Dorado County (Ranked by number of employees...year Rank Web site address Fax 1 1. El Dorado County 530-621-5390 330 Fair Lane...administrative officer www.co.el-dorado.ca.us 2 2. Output Technology...
- Sacramento water rights are targeted: El Dorado agency takes a step to gain...
- News wire article from: Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) June 12, 2007 700+ words
...would prefer negotiation to litigation, El Dorado Irrigation District board members Monday...wrest rights to water that originates in El Dorado County but currently is assigned to Sacramento...cooperation agreement" between the El Dorado Water and Power Authority and the Sacramento...
- More companies leave Silicon Valley for El Dorado Hills.(small technology firms...
- Magazine article from: Sacramento Business Journal LARSON, MARK September 7, 2001 700+ words
...Four more small companies have moved to El Dorado Hills from the Bay Area and Southern...says Sammy Cemo, the developer of the El Dorado Hills business park that the newest companies...square foot a year ago. The activity in El Dorado Hills continues a recent local trend...
- Head for the hills! It's a newspaper war.(Brehm Communications Inc., McNaughton...
- Magazine article from: Sacramento Business Journal LARSON, MARK August 24, 2001 700+ words
...newspaper turf war has broken out in El Dorado Hills, where affluent readers and increasingly...Wednesday will launch a new weekly, the EL Dorado Hills Telegraph. Brehm also publishes...San Diego, will, go head to head in El Dorado Hills against Davis-based McNaughton...
- The hills are suddenly hopping with business: After years of slow growth, two...
- Magazine article from: Sacramento Business Journal Marquand, Barbara November 23, 2001 700+ words
Ten years ago, El Dorado Hills was primarily a quiet bedroom...development has filled in and office parks in El Dorado Hills have taken off, allowing developers...developments -- Town Center and the El Dorado Business Park. The Mansour Co. is...
- El Dorado County, Calif., Water District Hopes Court Win Upheld.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 10, 2003 700+ words
...summer wildfire over the grasslands of El Dorado Hills. But this kind of fire doesn...crews could disappear in a few years if El Dorado County can't secure more water to...growing population. As of December, the El Dorado Irrigation District had only enough water...
- El Dorado's new digs. (construction of El Dorado Furniture Co.'s corporate...
- Magazine article from: South Florida Business Journal Mullins, Betsy November 9, 1992 700+ words
...boat and left Cuba. The boat was called El Dorado. After landing on the Yucatan Penisula...site will be the home of Phase One of El Dorado Furniture Co.'s corporate headquarters. The project is an ambitious one. El Dorado will start with a three-story, 125...
- Streetscape strategy boosts youth at El Dorado: larger stores drive sales...
- Magazine article from: Home Textiles Today Kitchen, Jane April 7, 2003 700+ words
...this voyage, on board a boat called El Dorado (which translates in English to The Dolphin...company made just over $18,000; by 2002, El Dorado had seen sales of $126 million. Today, El Dorado remains very much a family business. Manuel...
