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 ...

For years, you've heard that Ishtar was a disaster. But join us on the right side of history by watching it for yourself and ...

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?

If there's one lesson to be learned from Elaine May's Ishtar, it's that the road to $40 million hell is paved with good intentions. But Ishtar—which shows this week at Portland State University's ...