Word: ishtars
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...Streisand, 43, the all-around auteur of 1983's Yentl, will soon direct an adaptation of the AIDS play The Normal Heart. And Elaine May, 53, an early-'70s trailblazer with her comedies A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid, is currently directing Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar--at $30 million, the most expensive film ever entrusted to a woman...
...actress, sex goddess. Movies haven't seen that combo since the era of Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale, when European stars commuted between homegrown and Hollywood films. A later generation had less luck: Isabelle Huppert's first big U.S. film was Heaven's Gate, and Isabelle Adjani's was Ishtar--two signal flops of the '80s. Penelope Cruz has yet to look comfortable in a U.S. film. Bellucci knows the odds, and she has the ambition. "It's so difficult for a European actress to have the chance to work internationally," she says. "But if you want to make...
Hazem Hashem and Shama Ali picked a crazy time to fall in love. After the 20-year-old mechanic tied the knot with his 18-year-old cousin, the newlyweds headed to Baghdad's Ishtar Hotel, where they were greeted by folk dancers swaying to the beat of trumpets and drums. Yet as the couple checked into the honeymoon suite, with its scenic views of the Tigris River, thoughts of war intruded on their...
...Call me Ishtar. That's good enough, don't you think? I mean, who would call it plagiarism, given that exceptionally clever change I made? And, if they did, so what? I could always say that my stupid, sloppy researcher forgot to include quotation marks, so I thought I was only stealing from my researcher. Of course, the sentence I lifted isn't quite the original, so some fussbudget might say that I'd been trying to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. Mmmm. Call me Irresponsible...