European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                L 0ob Thomas Assoc ated press ick Tracy the movie opens in nearly on 12 000 Heaters throughout the United states on june 15 amid a Media Mega Blitz that rivals last Summers Batman. But will Warren Beatty a film about Thea i awed flatfoot with the yellow Fedora match the 9ross no the crusader r crossed Walt Disney co. Is tossing a huge i f no e at Disney world in Florida with 3,000 expected to attend. Following trailers that of stared in 2,000 Heaters since Christmas to Esste i be unleashed on the nation s Forks. Merchandise including Tracy a wrist watch  flood the Market. But sceptics Point to some  comic strip Dick Tracy once featured in 500 newspapers now appears in 150 and is Little known by e Young movie going audience. What s worse the c crowd hardly knows Beatty 53, who has made Only to films in nine years the last being the quintessential lomb ishtar. His other was the critically acclaimed a reds n 1981 he co starred with Diane Keaton and received in Academy award for Best director. I another problem is that although Dick Tracy co Star Madonna May be a megastar in pop music her last few promoters Cross their fingers  is not Only does today a Young movie going crowd Little know the comic strip Dick Tracy. In screen scream movies were Mega disasters who s that girl and Shanghai Surprise. Nevertheless Barrie Osborne executive producer of Dick Tracy unsurprisingly takes an upbeat View. Quot the picture should attract a wide audience because it can be appreciated on different Levels Quot he said in an interview. Quot the younger audience can enjoy the prosthetic characters prune face Flattop Etc lots of action and Beautiful color. And they certainly know Madonna. Quot the older audience can appreciate the wit and the appearance of the film much of it was derived from Post expressionist paintings a a three Penny opera Bertolt Brecht look. And Warren can bring that audience As  Disney plans to Issue graphic novelization a spruced up comic books a of Dick Tracy to bring some sort of awareness to the movie and character. Dick Tracy was the creation of Chester Gould who Drew cartoons for Chicago papers. Originally entitled plainclothes Tracy the strip about a Hawk nosed straight Arrow detective debuted in october 1931 in the Detroit Mirror and new York daily news. The comic strip featured blood bullets and a menacing menagerie of villains with memorable names. Flattop Fly face measles mumbles and More have threatened the intrepid two listed Tracy for nearly 60 years. Tracy his sweetheart Tess Trueheart and his grotesque enemies became american icons in the 1930s and 40s. Low budget movies and serials and a Short run to series helped fuel the country a fascination with Gould a denizens of the underworld. Dick Tracy the movie according to Beatty had its beginnings in 1977 when producers Art Linson and Floyd Mutrux bought film rights. They made a Deal with Paramount pictures which enlisted Universal pictures to co produce. Various packages were proposed including projects with directors Steven Spielberg John Landis Richard Benjamin and Walter Hill and stars Harrison Ford Clint Eastwood Richard Gere Tom Selleck and Mel Gibson. Beatty became involved in 1983, but Paramount reportedly walked at his pay demands. Five years later Michael Eisner and Jeff Katzenberg had moved from Paramount to Disney and they revived Quot Tracy with Beatty adding certain fiscal restraints. No one at Disney is saying How much Dick Tracy Cost. Reports Range from $23 million to $30 million considerably less than other summer epics such As total recall die hard 2 and Days of Thunder. Quot it was a modestly budgeted film a insists executive producer Osborne a Veteran of such bloated budgets As apocalypse now and the Cotton club both made by Francis Coppola. Osborne 46, had not worked previously with Beatty but he soon Learned How the producer director Star operated. Quot Warren acts As a conductor Quot said Osborne. Quot he is very collaborative likes to get people together and listen to their ideas. Then he selects what he wants. Quot the look of the film was his idea. He wanted to achieve the same Quality of the sunday comic strip. When there was a red it was the same red throughout the same Green Etc. It took some convincing when cinematographer Vittorio Sturaro and production designer Richard Sylbert came on  a major attraction of Dick Tracy is the appearance of Well known stars in wild makeups Osborne believes. They go unfilled but their identities Are an open secret Al Pacino As mob Boss big boy Caprice Dustin Hoffman As mumbles James Caan As ribs. Among those who Are billed Glenne headly Tess Trueheart Mandy Patinkin 88 keys Charles Durning police chief Brandon William Forsythe Flattop Dick Van Dyke the District attorney Paul Sorvino lips Manlis Estelle Parsons mrs. Trueheart. They hardly know actor Warren Beatty Here As the Peerless cop speaking into his two Way wrist radio in a scene from the film opening june 15. Stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores Lulu cd 0 h it it 0 the great world Atlas is a stars and stripes super Saver selection for june. You ii save 0 s20 off the original cover Price of $49.95 for this stunning collection of the Best of do current cartographic scholarship and technology with 32 pages of panoramic satellite / images of our world every arrayed in a single Atlas. 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