Jack Hunter???  Good to see your name go by - where are you??

Jeanette McKenna


> [Original Message]
> From: Jack Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 8/17/2007 9:25:46 AM
> Subject: Another Hollywood misstep?
>
> To be fair, one shouldn't presume anything from a news report, but since
> Hollywood so consistently gets things wrong, there is cause for concern
> here.  Thanks to the Indiana Jones movies, much of the public still thinks
> archaeologists sell their artifacts to museums.  I hope I'm wrong on this,
> but to paraphrase Henry Mencken, "No one ever went broke underestimating
> Hollywood's ability to rent fiction from truth"
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> CBS, Bruckheimer hunting for treasure
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>
> By Nellie Andreeva Thu Aug 16, 2:50 AM ET
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>
> Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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>
> LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS has ordered an adventure drama
pilot
> from Jerry Bruckheimer, the prolific producer behind the network's three
> "CSI" shows as well as "Cold Case," "Without a Trace" and "The Amazing
> Race."  The untitled show revolves around freelance treasure hunters. It
> comes from the creators of the short-lived Showtime limited series
"Sleeper
> Cell," Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff.
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>
> Reiff, a history buff who holds New York University degrees in film and
> history, described the project as an "A-class network version of an
> archaeology adventure show."  "The relics, the treasures on it will run
the
> gamut from biblical and ancient history though medieval and Renaissance
> times up to modern days," he said.
>
>
> Like "Sleeper Cell," which maintained a high degree of realism thanks to
> Voris and Reiff's extensive work with experts in terrorism and Islam, the
> CBS show will incorporate real work from archaeologists and historians.
> "It's not 'Indiana Jones' for television," Reiff said. "It's more
grounded,
> more contemporary."
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>
> Treasure hunting is a familiar arena for Bruckheimer, producer of the
> successful "National Treasure" action adventure feature franchise.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070816/tv_nm/cbs_dc_1       via:
> http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm