ishtar

     

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Trivia about ishtar

  • A Babylonian goddess of love & fertility, or a movie bomb for Warren Beatty & Dustin Hoffman
  • The title of this Beatty/Hoffman flick refers to a tiny nation, not a Babylonian goddess
  • This Semitic mother goddess can make the heavens & earth tremble (& film critics wince)
  • Babylonian babe:HI STAR
  • Roger Ebert said this 1987 Hoffman & Beatty film was "a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy"
  • Leonard Maltin calls this 1987 Warren Beatty-Dustin Hoffman farce the "'Heaven's Gate' of movie comedies"
  • In the "Epic of Gilgamesh", this goddess was spurned (like the Warren Beatty movie that flopped)
  • Dustin Hoffman's untalented songwriting partner Lyle Rogers