Leave it to an artist to get to the very essence of her art in one deft turn of phrase. It happened last night, at the Jacob Burns Film Center, in Pleasantville, New York (just fifty minutes from the ...

It’s a jolt, upon actually seeing “Ishtar,” rather than just relying on the dish, to realize that the movie that cost Elaine May her directorial career is among the most original, audacious, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty are stranded in the desert in the legendary 1987 box-office bomb Ishtar. (Photo: Columbia ...

Thirty-three years later, it's easy to see that Hollywood applied a double standard to the brilliant Elaine May. “If all of the people who hate ‘Ishtar‘ had seen it,” Elaine May famously said, “I ...

“As somebody once said, there’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-present of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a fiasco, a fiasco is a disaster of ...

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The Great Gate of Ishtar which stood at the entrance to Babylon has inspired awe since the 6th Century BC. Amanda Ruggeri finds out why. When Antipater of Sidon, the Greek poet of the 2nd Century BC, ...

The pairing of Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty failed to attract audiences and repelled critics, but the biggest casualty was the career of director Elaine May In October 1985, Elaine May, Warren ...

“If all of the people who hate ‘Ishtar’ had seen it,” Elaine May famously said, “I would be a rich woman today.” On Wikipedia’s list of the biggest box-office disasters, with losses over $100 million ...