‘Dick Tracy’ At 30: The Platonic Ideal Of The Comic Strip Movie
When Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” hit theaters in the early summer of 1990, the flurry of media attention accompanying the release wasn’t focused so much on its superstar filmmaker/star – directing his first feature since winning the Oscar for the job back in 1981 – or its packed cast, which included not only Beatty but Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Mandy Patinkin.