The Beard Is The Word

Whenever I mentally compile a list of Things That Make Life Worth Living ala Manhattan, Indiana Jones (even #2) usually makes a prompt appearance. For the last three years, George/Steve/Harrison have all said something to the effect of "we're just trying to line up our schedules". I don't think Harrison Ford is really nailed down to too many Ladies' Gardening Club seminars in Santa Monica, but I digress: in the face of all this non-news, Spielberg said something that sounds downright momentous to the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth:

I haven't given up making entertaining films, but over the last decade I have been making some films that express the respect I have for history.

I am about to make Indiana Jones 4, which is, as far as I am concerned, the sweet dessert I give those who had to chow down on the bitter herbs that I've used in Munich."

If that means there won't be any screaming slow-motion sex scenes intercut with the untimely death of Short Round, count me in.