“Ishtar” was an expensive film to make ... (Its story, which puts Beatty and the other star, Dustin Hoffman, in the roles of pathetic losers, may well have seemed like an act of cinematic ...

Today, the StarPhoenix talks to Montaha Istifo, who opened Star of Ishtar Restaurant last year in Sutherland. Istifo took over the restaurant from a previous owner and made a lot of changes ...

Ishtar is what happens when a studio writes the industry’s most mercurial movie star a blank check to make a film with a notoriously meticulous writer-director and stays the hell out of the ...

Star power seems to have ... manage to put on their sufferings for their art. Whatever else “Ishtar” is, it’s a portrait of a pair of obsessively devoted, passionate artists; one of the ...

“Ishtar” was different. As a well-hyped title with wide awareness (its budget, the equivalent of $120 million today, was rare beyond a James Bond, “Star Wars” or Spielberg tentpole), when ...

The Ishtar Gate, named after a Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, was one of eight gateways that provided entry to the inner city of Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (reign 605-562 ...

Today, the StarPhoenix talks to Montaha Istifo, who opened Star of Ishtar Restaurant last year in Sutherland. Star of Ishtar not only serves Assyrian food, but also Western, Italian and Greek.