Ishtar

It’s hard to imagine what legendary director Barry Levinson and uber-cool demigod Bill Murray were thinking when they made ‘Rock the Kasbah.’

The Conversation is a feature at PopOptiq bringing together Drew Morton and Landon Palmer in a passionate debate about cinema new and old. For their ninth piece, they discuss Elaine May’s notorious flop Ishtar (1987). LANDON’S TAKE Elaine May possesses one of the more underappreciated shadow biographies of post-classical Hollywood, while also sporting several overtly tragic credits to her …