People: Feb. 17, 1986

While Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Isabelle Adjani are filming Ishtar in New York City, everyone has taken a vow of silence. In the circumstances, this may have made more sense than taking a vow of poverty or chastity, but it put the rumor mill into overdrive. Worst was the word that the breathtaking Adjani was playing a young man. Such casting would have been a high offense against Gallic gifts, as Adjani proved anew in a recent photo session modeling her favorite clothes from the collections of such designers as Paris' Azzedine Alaia. But Adjani admirers, fear not. It can now be happily reported that far from a boy, the French actress will play a voluptuous, Dorothy Lamour-type % character in what is supposed to be a madcap throwback to the Hope-Crosby Road classics--with Hoffman doing the wisecracking and Beatty as a sometimes inept sexual bumbler. This should require the best performing talents of both Beatty and Adjani, since the two are said to be real-life nearly-weds.