Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn’t really stay in Vegas. Take, for instance, that out-of-wedlock kid you fathered in college who’s now extorting you to fund his poorly thought out business plan for a smoke shop and Phish collectibles emporium. Or, alternately, the jokey, hush-hush revelation from Shia LaBeouf that the fourth Indiana Jones flick will in fact be titled Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Or course, the latter — made during Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards, and confirmed by fan site SpielbergFilms.com, among many others — was never meant to stay in Vegas at all. Still, the selection of the title — one of five registered with the MPAA last month, the others being The Lost City of Gold, The City of Gods, The Fourth Corner of the World and The Quest for the Covenant — definitively nixes dreams of Indiana Jones and the Opal of the Mer-Man Prince, the dryly sardonic misdirection that star Harrison Ford had floated out there. Ahh, to dream…

I just got an advance media kit for the film from the Lucasfilm and Paramount folks yesterday, and while I have to scurry off in Gollum-like fashion to a full slate of stuff today, I’ll peruse the media kit for photos later tonight. Mostly, though, it’s a teaser and series refresher, with maps of real-world locations where the movies were filmed, tidbits about historical truths behind the legendary films… and even a maze and word find, people. That’s right, it’s like Indiana Jones and the Mysterious Case of Highlights Magazine.