See Hear Podcast Episode 24 - Ishtar

See Hear podcast is back for 2016. Did you miss us???? Don’t answer
because….telling the truth can be dangerous business. Tim, Bernard,
and Maurice discuss a film hand-picked by the wonderful Frank
Santopadre of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. That
film is 1987’s Ishtar starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty as
Chuck Clarke and Lyle Rogers, two awful songwriters and lounge
singers who get sent to play gigs at a hotel in Ishtar, but get
caught up in American / Middle Eastern politics. Strangely
familiar? The film was a financial failure with rumours of creative
conflict between the director, comedian Elaine May (of the
brilliant May and Nichols duo) and Beatty & Hoffman. It has
long been derided by the critics and many others as one of the
worst films ever made. With bravery and fortitude, the See Hear
Crew went in to find out if the film was as bad as reports had made
it out. We are pleased to report that there was disagreement among
the crew as to the film’s merits – conflict makes a film more
interesting, and so it does for members of a podcast. Forget Siskel
and Ebert or Stratton and Pomeranz. We give you the infamous Ishtar
Disagreement of Merrill, Stickwell and Bursztynski.Many thanks to
Frank for this selection.If you dig what we do, could you please
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