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 ...

Now that the $10 million of Iran-Contra money has been discovered, one might well ask: What did director Elaine May do with the purported $50 million-plus Columbia Pictures shelled out to make Ishtar?

Alex Nguyen is a freelance entertainment writer. He writes about film and music at Spectrum Culture, The Line of Best Fit, Beats Per Minute, and more. Thirty-five years ago to the day saw the release ...