>> That said, if Ishtar were a movie about two gay lounge singers who discard Christianity and convert to Islam, one of them discovers he is terminal and his partner struggles with euthanasia, <<
Wasn't it? :^D I actually saw the movie, and I was too young to get any gay subplots, but I'm pretty sure that's what the movie was about. I mean, it starred Warren Beatty and Richard Gere; they WERE gay, weren't they? I was rooting for the euthenasia, by the way. ;^D
I think you mean Dustin Hoffman. Richard Gere was nowhere near this particular stinker.