🎬 Why Ishtar Is Hollywood’s Most Expensive Inside Joke 🐫🎶💸 Ah yes, Ishtar . The cinematic punchline that cost Columbia Pictures tens of millions, fried everyone’s patience, and left behind more footage than a season of Survivor . The 1987 disaster that was supposed to be the next Road to Morocco but somehow became The Road to a Full-Blown Studio Meltdown . Let’s take a walk down memory lane through the burning sand dunes of misplaced ambition, blue-eyed camels (RIP), and egos big enough to blot out the Moroccan sun. 🌞🎥🔥 💡 The Origin Story: “Let’s Just Give Elaine a Movie!” Warren Beatty—certified Hollywood royalty and unofficial god of creative IOUs—decided to "gift" a movie to Elaine May, because, ya know, she ghostwrote Reds and Heaven Can Wait . Sweet, right? Except this was less “gift” and more “booby trap,” wrapped in privilege and funded by Columbia’s last few brain cells. 🎁💀 Elaine said, “Hey, I want to do a Road to... spoof in the Middle East,” and inst...
