Indiana Jones (fictional character)

‘Tomb Raider’: Lara Croft now battling video game stereotypes

2013-02-28 09:03:15

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Science reveals secrets of the Lionheart's heart

2013-03-01 13:34:00

Using a variety of techniques, scientists in France have analyzed the "highly fragmented mummified heart" of England's King Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart, and discovered that the people who embalmed it, mostly likely cooks, used a...

Community gathers at the Last Bookstore

2013-03-01 07:00:00

The staircase is narrow and creaky, with a bookshelf made from a 100-year-old harp case teetering on the precipice of collapse at the top of the landing. Overflowing with open books, pages wildly askew and dangling from uneven shelves, the bookcase...

Scanning mummies for heart disease 'about as fun as it can get'

2013-03-12 12:33:00

As medical director of the MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, preventive cardiologist Dr. Gregory Thomas counsels modern-day patients, urging them to eat right, exercise and quit smoking to keep their hearts healthy....

You may be smart if you 'like' Mozart and curly fries on Facebook

2013-03-11 13:35:00

What do Facebook users who “like” Mozart, Morgan Freeman’s voice, "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and curly fries have in common? They are likely to have high IQs, according to a new study. Meanwhile, those who like Facebook pages...

68 pythons found — gulp!

2013-02-19 11:02:08

When movie costumes become fashion trends

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Deborah Nadoolman Landis has worked as a costume designer on more than 20 films over the last 40 years. Along the way, she has created several looks that have crossed into popular culture and become fashion trends. Here are a few anecdotes, in her own...

Deborah Landis, ever the advocate for costume designers

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Designing costumes so ingrained in popular culture that they still inspire Halloween disguises 30 years after they were created — Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket, Indiana Jones' signature outback slouch look and the unforgettable "College"...

Shia LaBeouf quits Broadway play over 'creative differences'

2013-02-20 11:35:00

Shia LaBeouf won't be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play "Orphans" in New York over "creative differences," according to a news release sent Wednesday.� LaBeouf has...

The $570,000 JFK bomber jacket bargain

2013-02-18 13:06:00

Would you pay $570,000 for a bomber jacket? Probably not (though I’m willing to give NBA stars and the like an out here). But would you pay $570,000 for a bomber jacket, complete with presidential seal, once worn by John F. Kennedy aboard Air...

‘Star Wars’ writer Lawrence Kasdan wants spinoff film to ‘start fresh’

2013-02-09 12:52:29

Richard III found, but the truth may still be missing

2013-02-04 12:51:00

In America, we paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In Britain, they put up a parking lot and paved over a king. As my colleague Henry Chu reported: More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had...

Though she's recent appeared in Irish TV shows, she'll always be in our hearts as Dr. Elsa Schneider in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

2013-03-13 22:34:00

In "The Scent of Scandal," Craig Pittman introduces characters who have seemingly stepped out of an "Indiana Jones" film.

2013-03-08 08:11:00

Perhaps at the time, Oscar voters didn't realize Ford's Indiana Jones from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" would become one of the all-time great movie heroes. It's a performance that remains the gold standard few blockbuster leading men come anywhere close to matching.

2013-02-22 12:28:37