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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HARD to excuse writer-director Elaine May for spending $40 million on Ishtar. The movie is no Heaven's Gate-style disaster--it's pleasant and silly and has some truly hilarious moments. But it just makes you wonder what she spent all that money...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...moment the movie switches from New York to Ishtar, a small fictional republic next to Morocco, however, it starts to look like and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom rip-off, complete with 7th century artifacts, a beautiful woman and a complicated plot. May wastes a lot of time on the political intrigue which traps Rodgers and Clark and diverts attention away from the lively interplay between the unlikely heroes...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

While Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Isabelle Adjani are filming Ishtar in New York City, everyone has taken a vow of silence. In the circumstances, this may have made more sense than taking a vow of poverty or chastity, but it put the rumor mill into overdrive. Worst was the word that the breathtaking Adjani was playing a young man. Such casting would have been a high offense against Gallic gifts, as Adjani proved anew in a recent photo session modeling her favorite clothes from the collections of such designers as Paris' Azzedine Alaia. But Adjani admirers, fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 17, 1986 | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...unique mingling of distance, intimacy, lust, humor and spite. In them, the billowy amplitude of Rubens' flesh is sometimes reborn, along with the sardonic affection Reginald Marsh felt for his Coney Island cuties. But the women of the early '50s are his canonical ones-part archaic Ishtar, part Amsterdam hooker and part Marilyn. Their most menacing attribute is their smile, originally cut from a LIFE magazine ad and stuck on; in Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53, there are two smiles, one where it should be, the other arranged like a necklace of teeth around the throat. With such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting's Vocabulary Builder | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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