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APPEALING TO: The family-values crowd Women with hot flashes SANG BADLY IN: Ishtar (1987) At Long Last Love...
Harvard went into this year's meet as it did the entire season--with high hopes--and came out of the experience like a movie audience that has just seen Ishtar. Rather than garnering the upset win over Cornell it had dreamed of, it ended up with a seventh-place finish, it lowest in five years...
...empire: not only do they "lie still and think of England," but they pursue the men, and each other, with tireless voracity. In the second act, which is set in 1979 London, the frolics include an orgy in which Clive's daughter Victoria (Cori Lynn Peterson) invokes Ishtar while romping with her gay brother Edward (now played by Brain van Gorder) and her lesbian lover Lynn (Vonnie Roemer...
Some movies are so ferociously prejudged -- sometimes because of costs that seem scandalous, sometimes because of controversies with pressure groups or the ratings board -- that it becomes difficult to evaluate them fairly when they appear. One looks so chic (and so inside) airily dismissing something like Ishtar or Hudson Hawk. What fun for critics and show-biz reporters. And so easy...
...JONATHAN M. BERLIN (Not Just Any Editor) Biggest Gross:Presumed Innocent; Most Gross: Total Recall; Biggest Bomb: Dick Tracy MICHAEL R. GRUNWALD (Sporty Editor) Biggest Gross: Die Harder; Most Gross: Jetsons; Biggest Bomb: Gremlins II MICHAEL S. HARWAYNE (Busy Editor) Biggest Gross: Dick Tracy; Most Gross: Jetsons; Biggest Bomb: Ishtar...