Harrison Ford elected to AIA board
My ever-tenuous grasp of the line between fantasy and reality seems to be slipping away again…
“Harrison Ford elected to the board of the Archaeological Institute of America”:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iEHCPWfisNFJ-UBa2khwNGpFt3VQD90MAENO0
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I’m so jealous. While we anthropologists long for a celebrity to publicize what we do (as we wait for Tenure to come out), archaeologists have Indiana Jones in several incarnations (see http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/31/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Hawass-Hat.php)
Spielberg nods to some real anthropological and archaeological history and has Indiana Jones clashing with McCarthyism and the FBI in his latest adventure. Today’s LA Times says:
“Koepp’s script also had to get the approval of Harrison Ford, who probably enjoyed getting to play his own age in a story set at the height of the Red Scare in 1957, when Marshall College’s Professor Jones, believe it or not, runs afoul of the FBI and has his patriotism questioned.” (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-jones19-2008may19,0,5905300.story )
Saw the bootleg dvd version lastnight and the FBI and McCarthyism scenes had be wondering the same thing.