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	Pagan News - Pagan News & Information
		Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart to the Sumerian mythologySumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess `Ashtart.
		The meaning of Ishtar is not known, though it is possible that the underlying stem is the same as that of Assur, which would thus make her the "leading one" or "chief." In any event, it is now generally recognized that the name is SemiteSemitic in origin.
		The (later) votaries of Ishtar were virgins who, as long as they remained in her service, were not permitted to marry.
	www.pagannews.com /cgi-bin/gods3.pl?Ishtar (845 words)

	Ishtar (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ishtar is a 1987 motion picture comedy, directed by Elaine May and starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty as "Rogers and Clarke", a duo of incredibly untalented lounge singers who stumble into a political conflict in the fictional African nation of Ishtar.
		Ishtar was nominated for Worst Picture in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards.
		Ishtar is a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ishtar_(movie) (867 words)

	Easter Sunday or Ishtar Pagan Day
		This statue, which is on its original pedestal of reddish stone, was placed in the Temple of Ishtar to remind the goddess of the king's devotion.
		When Tammuz died, Ishtar descended to the underworld to wrest the power of life and death from her sister, the dread Ereshkigal.
		Her love for Adonis echoes that of Ishtar and Tammuz, and the existence of temple prostitutes in her temple in Corinth reflects the custom in the temples of Ishtar.
	www.retakingamerica.com /easter_and_ishtar.html (951 words)

	BATTLEFIELD EARTH - ISHTAR OF THE APES?
		I can't remember the last movie that was this badly mauled by the critics in a feeding frenzy - probably Showgirls, or maybe Waterworld.
		Of course, reviews of bad movies are more fun to read as well, which is why I gathered all these excerpts from several reviews of what one critic referred to as "Ishtar of the Apes".
		The primary special effect in the movie is accomplished by filling buckets with dirt and pieces of concrete and then tossing them across the screen.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /art_critics_bf.html (1414 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ishtar: Video: Elaine May,Warren Beatty,Dustin Hoffman,Isabelle Adjani,Charles Grodin,Jack Weston,Tess ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Ishtar first came out in the theaters - my husband and I wondered aloud "was this the worst movie we've ever seen, or the BEST?" We decided it was the BEST -- at least one of the best, anyway.....We usually have to rent it once a year (sometimes more) to get a good laugh.
		ISHTAR was touted as an updated Hope/Crosby "Road to.." movie but fails in its execution.
		Ishtar is on the verge of civil uprising as the singing duo are booked to perform there and get involved with a CIA operative (Charles Grodin) involved in the coup and a mysterious woman (Isabelle Adjani).
	www.amazon.ca /Ishtar-Warren-Beatty/dp/6302814146 (1081 words)

	Ishtar (1987): Reviews
		The most underestimated commercial movie of 1987 may not be quite as good as Elaine May's three previous features, but it's still a very funny work by one of this country's greatest comic talents.
		Ishtar is a good movie, but you can't help but wonder if, lurking somewhere in those cans of outtakes, there isn't a great movie, too.
		Ishtar isn't funny, it isn't clever, and it isn't entertaining, the complete opposite of Young Frankenstein, a true comedy classic.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/ishtar (747 words)

	eBay - VHS: Ishtar (UPC: 043396608498) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The fact that Ishtar was perhaps the biggest box-office disaster of the 80s had often been used as a misconception in ratting it out for also being the worst movie of all time.
		Ishtar is not easily defined, unless you're a fan of the road movies by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, in which case this movie was made as a tribute to them, and it cost 40 million dollars.
		The movie concerns itself with two song writers Rogers and Clark (Beatty and Hoffman), and the civil war in the mythical kingdom of Ishtar.
	product.ebay.com /Ishtar_UPC_043396608498_W0QQfvcsZ1178QQsoprZ3090673 (1211 words)

	Worst COMEDY EVER - Quick Stop Entertainment
		ISHTAR isn't half as bad as people make it out to be, and I could probably find at least a dozen comedies worse than it.
		That is not to say that the movie is good, but it has some great lines.
		Let's face it, you love it because it was the only tolerable big budget movie that came out that year that didn't feature a singing lion.
	www.moviepoopshoot.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1247 (592 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Not Another Teen Movie
		Because if you know the movies this movie spoofs, the gags will be all more funny and you will be rolling over in the aisle laughing your butt off when the person next to you will simply be chuckling...and that's a priceless moment.
		Besides the gratuitous nudity-- thanks to the always buck naked foreign exchange student, whose joke was dead in the water-- and beside the toilet scene the movie was fairly clean and inoffensive.
		Overall, this movie was entertaining and funny-- everything you could hope for when you're in the mood to watch a silly movie.
	www.popkornjunkie.com /reviews/teenmovie.html (1021 words)

	Review: Corpses are Forever Movie - MoviesOnline
		There is joke that Gigli was a bad movie or Ishtar was bad, well folks no need to argue any longer I have found the winner.
		On the movie boxes it sez the world is over run but in the back ground you see people driving and walking as if itâs nice night out.
		The only good thing to come of this movie is that I am getting back to finishing my script because if they made a movie out of his script then I am going to get an oscar.
	www.moviesonline.ca /movienews_1660.html (947 words)

	Ishtar: The Movie - Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Elaine May, Paul Williams
		Ishtar The Movie.com (fan created and maintained) salutes this rarity, hoping you'll enjoy digging deep into the movie, it's creators experiences, and the history-making behind the scenes dirt.
		Movie stills, promo shots, on-location images and much more for your eyes to marvel at are on THE PHOTOS page...
		This website is maintained and updated by fans of Ishtar, and is in no way affiliated with Columbia Pictures, or claim copyright to all images, sounds or text used.
	www.ishtarthemovie.com (267 words)

	Amazon.com: Ishtar: DVD: Elaine May,Warren Beatty,Dustin Hoffman,Isabelle Adjani,Charles Grodin,Jack Weston,Tess ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Anyway, I treasure Ishtar, particularly its leads Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and the supremely ridiculous Charles Grodin for having the courage to be so stunningly idiotic.
		It took several years (and Cutthroat Island) to force the term `flop' to be re-assessed and allow Ishtar to breathe new life as a cult film.
		Now -- by most accounts -- Ishtar is a hidden gem filled with memorable scenes from the spectacular trio of Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Charles Grodin (whose dead pan is dead on).
	www.amazon.com /Ishtar-Elaine-May/dp/B00005JN94 (1682 words)

	Movie Poop Shoot
		Warren Beatty is an okay actor, but he is a movie star first, and as a movie star, we cannot accept him as a loser songwriter who can’t sing and is hopeless around women.
		If ISHTAR was boring and unfunny while they were just songwriters, you can only imagine what happens when they become CIA agents with the fate of the Middle East on their shoulders.
		I can see why Godzilla movies remain so popular with children, their plots are easy to follow and the sides clearly drawn, and there’s plenty of action and excitement, but never anything so convincing as to frighten.
	www.moviepoopshoot.com /gbu/12.html (2326 words)

	"Eye of the Beholder" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The movie tells a story of a man (Ewan McGregor) that works for a secret agency (that is never revealed), who while on a stakeout, instantly falls in love with a woman.
		The material of this movie is very offensive, mostly consisting of very violent murders, nudity, and plenty of bad language...
		The movie resolved nothing; the viewer is none the wiser at the end of the movie than the start.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/eyeofthebeholder.html (808 words)

	Ishtar - Review - Moviefone
		Ishtar is an unabashed vamp for a pair of household names, and as such it works, often hilariously.
		Elaine May, the director, has mounted a multimillion-dollar expedition in search of a plot so thin that it hardly could support a five-minute TV sketch.
		Kirsten Dunst holds court at the 'Marie Antoinette' premiere.
	movies.aol.com /movie/ishtar/16798/reviews (232 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - A SECOND LOOK AT... ISHTAR!
		Unfortunately for ISHTAR -- and for the movie viewing public -- this is one of those misunderstood and unappreciated movies that, no matter how you go into it, you'll most likely be let down.
		Or maybe ISHTAR is just destined to be one of those ill-fated movies that shows up at the wrong place at the wrong time for the wrong audience.
		I am very encouraged that there are more and more Ishtar fans coming out of the closet, and proudly and boldly proclaiming their affection for this funny and clever movie.
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=439 (1477 words)

	Comments on 6567 \| MetaFilter
		When a movie like Ishtar still plays in the middle of the afternoon on a third rate local TV station, it's still generating revenue.
		While the rate at which it is generating revenue may not necessarily show a great return, it might be enough to cover all the costs over a 20-30 year time (and that's for flops).
		That means Ishtar had to make just shy of $4 million 1987 dollars per year, or $5.8 million 1999 dollars per year, just to tread water -- that is, with zero effect to its bottom line.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/6567 (1428 words)

	Ishtar
		And it has developed a reputation for the ages that is totally unjustified on all counts.
		The movie is often compared to the Hope/Crosby "Road" pictures.
		The genius of the movie is that Rogers and Clark never really understand just how awful they are (except in a few flashes).
	www.sff.net /people/rothman/ishtar.htm (1080 words)

	Robert Anton Wilson \| Ishtar Rising
		It was as if I had acquired a part-time schizophrenia which only went into operation on entering a movie theater.
		Women, of course, had nipples in real life, in Playboy, in European movies, in pornography, in the National Geographic; but in Hollywood, I had been trained to half-believe, they had all been born with a piece of fabric that could never be removed, not even by the greatest surgeon in the cosmos.
		Of course, the Catholic Hierarchy had been inteligent (and by their own lights, right) all along: Repression is never a static process, but must always be dynamic, either moving forward toward total control or retreating backward as the floodgates open to that force which French intellectuals quite correctly capitalize: Desire.
	www.rawilson.com /ishtar.shtml (1731 words)

	Ishtar: The Movie - In Their Words
		I'm working on two movies and two studios: the regimes are changing as we speak.
		And I think Ishtar is maybe the prime example that I know of in Hollywood of studio suicide.
		And at the end of the movie you were supposed to hear fully produced rock 'n' roll tracks of those songs with great musicians but Warren as producer and the entire Columbia team has never allowed it to be released because they were overwhelmed by the negative response to the picture.
	www.ishtarthemovie.com /intheirwords.htm (1852 words)

	WaffleMovies.com - Gangs of New York
		Then, it's release was delayed from Christmas 2001 because Miramax and Scorsese didn't want to release a movie portraying a great deal of violence and racial strife in New York City so soon after the attacks of September 11.
		At the heart of the screenplay is the personal battle between Bill and Amsterdam, but it is often pushed aside by Scorsese as he tries to fill in many historical facts and incidents that aren't necessary.
		It's an average movie that shows signs of greatness, but it fails due to a horrible plot choice that leaves you wanting a better ending.
	www.wafflemovies.com /gangsofny.html (813 words)

	TIME.com: They Got What They Wanted ISHTAR -- May 18, 1987 -- Page 1
		The auteur of Ishtar the movie is film's shyest comic talent, Elaine May. The auteur of Ishtar the event (or would-be event) is the medium's shyest -- but also slyest -- actor-producer, Warren Beatty.
		This goal is to see if he can turn movie production into a form of seduction, in which large, supposedly rational corporations are encouraged to spend bloated sums of money for unlikely enterprises.
		In Ishtar, they get muddled up with Isabelle Adjani, whom they both mistake for a boy at first; a CIA operative (Charles Grodin) who is not nearly so smooth a counterrevolutionary as he thinks he is; and a blind camel that provides the film with its best running -- actually stumbling -- gag.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,964399,00.html (756 words)

	Marik Ishtar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marik Ishtar (マリク・イシュタール Mariku Ishutāru) in the original Japanese anime and manga, is a character in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh!
		There is no conclusive evidence that the character's name was originally meant to be romanized as Malik; most fans believe that it was made fairly obvious that it was meant to be romanized that way given the meaning of the name "Malik", and given the fact that Malik is a fairly common Arabic name.
		Marik Ishtar is known as "Malik Ishtar" in Indonesia [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marik_Ishtar (1083 words)

	Ishtar (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Trivia: Stars Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty were each paid $5 million, a sum that was considered impressive at that time.
		These innocents are taken on a journey of discovery through Ishtar and back home to the struggle against 'lives of quiet desperation.'
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
	us.imdb.com /Title?0093278 (377 words)

	MSN - News - Bombs Away! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It's turkey time." Those prophetic words are spoken by Jennifer Lopez in "Gigli," a movie that cost $56 million to make, millions more to promote, and yet took in only $3.8 million during its opening weekend.
		While "Gigli" may be a disaster (one critic called it "the worst movie of our admittedly young century"), it's certainly not the biggest flop ever to grace the big screen.
		That dubious honor is shared by 10 films (well, 11, including a war-themed double bill) that tanked so spectacularly that their failures shut down studios and ended careers.
	entertainment.msn.com /news/article.aspx?news=131054 (319 words)

	Some call me... Tim (Menzies)
		The movie is usually hated by critics but it has many die hard fans.
		Ishtar is a comedy of the first measure.
		Ishtar had taken me away from the mundane and the runny to a new plane (:-)) of existence.
	menzies.blogspot.com (4981 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Gilgamesh [- The movie -]
		Strangers are like forgotten photographs to other strangers: the negative is there, but the image is never printed.
		I don't see how this story can be compressed into a movie.
		And it's a downer too, I guess, given that the quest is a total failure.
	boards.theforce.net /Message.aspx?topic=18091279 (604 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Ishtar, Trading Cards CCG, Animation, Men's Clothing items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alchemy Gothic Curse of Ishtar T Shirt Large
		Movie Mars UK Alchemy Gothic T-shirt XL Extra Large Curse Of Ishtar
		Ishtar (Uncut) Warren Beatty Dustin Hoffman NEW R2 DVD
	search.ebay.co.uk /Ishtar_W0QQftsZ0QQsascsZ2 (313 words)

	Wired Mesh: All-Too-Honest Movie Ad: Gigli
		In fact, I do a lot more review reading than movie watching, at a rate something near 10-to-1.
		These blurbs suggest that the movie in question rivals the greatest work of Renior and Tarkovski, but with more hilarious fart jokes that will have the whole family in stitches.
		Word on the street is that Gigli is the worst movie since Ishtar.
	mesh.chattablogs.com /archives/002677.html (570 words)

	AMCTV.com MEMBER REVIEWS: Ishtar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This movie is one of the funniest films ever made.
		Too bad most of the humor is over the head of the average movie fan.
		"Move the camel!" I own this movie in DVD AND VHS.
	www.amctv.com /show/review?CID=9460-EST (73 words)

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