Quest for the Lost Ark (Sunday, 8:00 p.m., History Channel) Tudor Parfitt looks more like Jeremy Clarkson than Harrison Ford, but he is a real life Indiana Jones. This History Channel documentary special traces his search for the Ark of the Covenant – the same thing the fictional Indy searched for in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Also of note this Weekend: George Carlin: It's Bad for Ya (Saturday, 10:00 p.m., HBO) It is hard......

MOVIE: Somewhere between Han Solo and Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford (pictured) starred in Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic Blade Runner, which has been screening over at the Ziegfeld. This director's cut version includes more fights! And more special effects! And way more cyberpunk attitude! 5:30 and 8:30pm // Ziegfeld [141 W 54th St] // $11 READING: Earlier today Rosie O'Donnell was there, but tonight Shalom Auslander will spend some time at Barnes & Noble reading......

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (directed by Eric Zala) It may be hard to imagine what hardcore movie fans did before the advent of the Internet's forums, blogs and YouTube videos, but you can take a trip down the Betamax memory lane with Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation playing tonight and tomorrow at 8 pm at Anthology Film Archives. A group of preteens in Mississippi over the course of seven years......

Action adventure, animated sci-fi, iconic '80s actresses and French sexual intrigue—this weekend is a good one for movie going in New York. Draw your swords landlubbers, Gore Verbinski's sequel to his bombastic film based on an amusement park ride is out this weekend, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. In this installment, shot at the same time as the forthcoming part III, Johnny Depp's brilliant Jack Sparrow searches for Davy Jones's chest to free......

How does a 2,500-year-old Roman artifact, dug up illegally by antiquities poachers in Italy, find its way into the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? That question has been on a lot of people's minds after last weeks surprise admission by the Met that its prized "Euphronios krater," which had been acquired in 1971 under mysterious circumstances, was stolen property and was being relinquished to Italy. Enter the New York Times, which......

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Gothamist knew Canadian geese were vicious, but this is ridiculous: A gaggle of geese flew into an American Airlines flight leaving LaGuardia, forcing it to land at Kennedy minutes later. The geese damaged "both the plane and the engine on its right side" according to American Airlines spokespeople. The plane is a two-engine F-100, which seems small, but still, Canadian geese... that boggles the mind. Though it does remind of that cool part in Indiana......

Harrison Ford, where art thou? You're our Han Solo, our Indiana Jones...hell, our Jack Ryan (we need a good CIA hero in this day and age, we suppose). It seems you've been going through a three-quarter-life crisis. In love with Calista Flockhart? The earring? The crappy movies? It's so sad to Gothamist that you have to star in a movie with Bedhead (as for Hollywood Homicide, A.O. Scott likes it, Manohla Dargis doesn't). Yes, you're......

Slate has a feature about the laptop that's getting play in the Middle East - Itronix's Go Book Max. "We drop each one 54 times from one meter, bake it in an oven, chill it in a freezer, vibrate it, and submit it to a shower of hurricane proportions," says Itronix materials. Itronix describes itself as being leaders in the "field computing" industry, and they specialize for field service, government, utilities, public safety, telco, and......

Indiana Jones, Dead at 95: 2 Archaeologists, Robert Braidwood and His Wife, Linda Braidwood, Die: Dr. Braidwood, a dynamic figure who some say was an inspiration for the famous screen archaeologist Indiana Jones, brought a literary sensibility to his exacting work. Word is that Indiana Jones is still alive and well in the movies, with Indiana Jones rumored to be on the way for 2005: cinecon summary, extensive fansite, giant summary at upcomingmovies, Indiana......