Word: dustin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie Ishtar features arid Moroccan dunes, so it may seem appropriate that its studio, Columbia Pictures, is thirsting for box-office receipts. In its first 19 days, Ishtar grossed $11.6 million, trading on the presence of Superstars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. That sounds good, but the film cost $45 million or more to make...
...Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound." That lyric, warbled by Hope and Crosby as they jounced along one of their more amiable roads back in 1942, is outrageous enough to have been penned by Rogers and Clarke, the comically dreadful songwriting team played by Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar. The two pictures share similarities besides their North African setting: agreeably low-keyed playing by their stars, a plot that involves them dangerously in local politics, and about the same quota of gags. There is one important difference: Ishtar cost roughly 40 times as much as Road...
Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman star in a road picture like the old Hope- Crosby comedies. Ishtar is funny, but its $40 million cost...
...have something to do with the fact that Ishtar features two of Hollywood's hottest stars. Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman play Lyle Rodgers and Chuck Clark, a singer-songwriting duo trying to make it in New York. Their only problem is that they are bad. Really bad. Even their agent (Jack Weston) tells them, "You're old, you're white, you have no shtick...
...take varying approaches to the task of explaining an artist. An early program on Architect Philip Johnson, for instance, simply depended on the words of the articulate artist himself. Another, Private Conversations, chronicled the creative process, eavesdropping on the filming of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman. The behind-the-scenes glimpses were illuminating but not especially pretty. After 90 minutes of intense ego management, the participants seemed diminished, not enhanced, by the scrutiny...