Indiana Jones

lefthandofdog
Mon, 26 May 2008 07:33:32 +0000

I hadn’t given Erich von Daniken (sp?) a thought for YEARS until I saw this movie. I did think the skull looked like it was filled with saran wrap.

Who was in the oil portrait hanging in the hallway outside Indie’s classroom? The camera lingered for a moment on it so I thought it must be significant.

The movie was an opportunity for me to tell h.s. d about nuclear testing, above and below ground, radioactivity and the admonition when I was a kid not to eat the snow and the whole alien thing. I thought it was a fun romp through the 50s.

Here’s a bit of trivia: several years ago I read in some design/home magazine that Karen Allen had opened a knitting shop in the Berkshires. In the movies, she opened a bar in Nepal. Parallel worlds? Life imitating art?