"Dick Tracy Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. The strip made its debut on October 14, 1931, in the ""Detroit Mirror"". It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1972. Since that time, various artists and writers have continued the strip, which still runs in newspapers today. Dick Tracy has also been the hero in a number of films, notably one in which Warren Beatty played the crime fighter in 1990. Writer Tom"
"series ""Roseanne"" (1989–94). Entering the 1990s, Beatty got his third nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special category for ""Last Train Home"" (1990). A year later, he appeared in the British film ""Hear My Song"" (1991), in which he portrayed tenor Josef Locke, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture. In 1990, Beatty worked again with Linda Blair in ""Repossessed"" (1990), a spoof of ""The Exorcist"". He appeared in the Marvel Comics superhero adventure ""Captain America"" (1990). He portrayed the father of"
"Patton. Anne Jeffreys played Tess Trueheart in the first two, succeeded by Kay Christopher and finally Anne Gwynne; Ian Keith joined the cast as the actor Vitamin Flintheart for two films; Joseph Crehan played Chief Brandon. RKO stocked the films with familiar faces, creating a veritable rogues' gallery of characters: Mike Mazurki as Splitface, Dick Wessel as Cueball, Esther Howard as Filthy Flora, Jack Lambert as hook-handed villain The Claw; baldheaded, pop-eyed Milton Parsons, mild-mannered Byron Foulger, dangerous Trevor Bardette and pockmarked, gently sinister Skelton Knaggs. In 1990, Warren Beatty directed and starred as the title character in a live"
"and fedora with a tommy gun accessory. Media outlets reported a legal battle being waged over rights to the Dick Tracy character. Warren Beatty announced plans to make a sequel to his 1990 movie. At the same time, television producers announced plans for a new ""Dick Tracy"" TV series. Both sides claimed that they were the legal owners of the rights to Dick Tracy. In May 2005, Beatty sued the Tribune Company, claiming he has owned the rights to the Dick Tracy character since 1985. Pressure from Beatty led to the cancellation of a proposed collaboration between artist Mike Oeming"
"Bugsy Bugsy is a 1991 American biographical crime drama film directed by Barry Levinson which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel and his relationship with Virginia Hill. It stars Warren Beatty as Siegel and Annette Bening as Hill, as well as Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, and Joe Mantegna. The screenplay was written by James Toback from research material by Dean Jennings' 1967 book ""We Only Kill Each Other"". The film received acclaim from critics, including Roger Ebert, and was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning two for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Costume Design. A director's"
"Wilkerson — Siegel only became involved as it neared completion (Wilkerson owned 48% of the Flamingo until he sold out much later). Bugsy Bugsy is a 1991 American biographical crime drama film directed by Barry Levinson which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel and his relationship with Virginia Hill. It stars Warren Beatty as Siegel and Annette Bening as Hill, as well as Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, and Joe Mantegna. The screenplay was written by James Toback from research material by Dean Jennings' 1967 book ""We Only Kill Each Other"". The film received acclaim from critics, including"
"Graffiti Bridge (film) Graffiti Bridge is a 1990 American rock musical drama film written by, directed by, and starring Prince in his fourth and final film role. It is the sequel to his 1984 film ""Purple Rain"". Like its predecessor, it was accompanied by a soundtrack album of the same name. The plot continues with The Kid, living future life as an upbeat performer and co-owner of a club, Glam Slam, which was willed to him from Billy, who was the owner of First Avenue Club in the first film. Solitary and lovelorn, he spends his personal time composing songs,"
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1990 American martial arts superhero comedy film directed by Steve Barron. Based on the fictional superhero team of the same name, the story follows Splinter and the turtles, their meeting April O'Neil and Casey Jones, and their confrontation with Shredder and his Foot Clan. It stars Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, and the voices of Brian Tochi, Robbie Rist, Corey Feldman, and Josh Pais. The film is an adaptation of the early ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"" comics, with several elements taken from the animated TV series airing at the"
"1990 by Propaganda Films, by request of director Dominic Sena. Sena would go on to mention his positive impression on the script was mainly based on the premise and the character of Early Grayce. Between November 1990 and March 1991, Metcalfe completed two rewrites of the script to implement changes requested by Sena and Propaganda Films. The characters of Brian and Carrie were given professions as a writer and a photographer, respectively, while retaining the original premise to share a ride with a serial killer. Metcalfe disagreed on the direction the script was being developed, while Sena and the producers"
"the 1990s, he made appearances in such film as Warren Beatty's action comedy adaptation ""Dick Tracy"" (1990), Steven Spielberg's ""Hook"" (1991) as Captain Hook, guest starred in the 1991 ""Lisa's Substitute"" episode of ""The Simpsons"", medical disaster ""Outbreak"" (1995), legal crime drama ""Sleepers"" (1996), thriller ""Mad City"" (1997), and the satirical black comedy ""Wag the Dog"" (1997) alongside Robert De Niro. In the 2000s, he played theatrical producer Charles Frohman in ""Finding Neverland"", co-starred in the comedy ""Meet the Fockers"" (both 2004) as Bernie Focker, the fantasy thriller """" (2006), and played the title character in the family comedy ""Mr."
"Dirty Harry (1990 video game) Dirty Harry is a 1990 video game based on the ""Dirty Harry"" film franchise starring Clint Eastwood. Harry Callahan is a San Francisco police detective who rarely follows police protocol. A powerful drug lord known as The Anaconda has created a burgeoning drug-smuggling operation by recruiting all of San Francisco's drug gangs. Harry must crack the case and take down the kingpin himself on Alcatraz. The game is a side-scroller in which players must guide Dirty Harry throughout San Francisco. He wears a blue suit, although it can be exchanged for a white suit. He"
"encouraged dozens of takes of every scene. The film was released in the United States on June 15, 1990, and was the third-highest opening weekend of 1990. ""Dick Tracy"" was the ninth-highest-grossing film in the US in 1990, and number twelve globally. The film also received positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert from the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" praised the matte paintings, art direction and prosthetic makeup design, stating: """"Dick Tracy"" is one of the most original and visionary fantasies I've seen on a screen"". Beatty had realized several positive aspects of hiring Madonna as an actress for the film. She would"
"Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beatty (""né"" Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for ""Reds"" (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for ""Heaven Can Wait"" (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with ""Reds"". Eight of the films he has produced have"
"center it with Alphonse ""Big Boy"" Caprice as the primary villain. For research, Epps read every ""Dick Tracy"" comic strip from 1930 to 1957. The writers wrote two drafts for Landis; Max Allan Collins, then writer of the ""Dick Tracy"" comic strip, remembers reading one of them. ""It was terrible. The only positive thing about it was a thirties setting and lots of great villains, but the story was paper-thin and it was uncomfortably campy."" In addition to Beatty and Eastwood, other actors who were considered for the lead role included Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Tom Selleck, and Mel Gibson."
"Mickey One Mickey One is a 1965 American crime drama film starring Warren Beatty and directed by Arthur Penn from a script by Alan Surgal. Its kaleidoscopic camerawork, film noir atmosphere, lighting and design aspects, Kafkaesque paranoia, philosophical themes and Warren Beatty's performance in the title role turned the film into a cult classic. Penn and Surgal ignored the usual conventions of narrative for a freewheeling approach to their dramatic devices and Chicago locations. The film's soundtrack, reverberating with hints of everything from Béla Bartók to bossa nova, reteamed Stan Getz with arranger Eddie Sauter, following their classic album ""Focus""."
"Why Me? (1990 film) Why Me? is a 1990 American caper comedy film directed by Gene Quintano. The screenplay is credited to Donald E. Westlake and Leonard Maas Jr. (a pseudonym of David Koepp), and is based on the fifth book in Westlake's series of John Dortmunder novels. The Byzantine Fire, a sacred ruby on loan from Turkey to the United States for exhibition, no sooner arrives in Los Angeles than it is stolen by Eastern religious extremists and hidden inside the safe of a local jewelry store. When professional burglar and jewel thief Gus Cardinale (Christopher Lambert) breaks into"
"knew himself"" and added, ""To me, the stand-up gags that the guy had to do in ""Mickey One"" were not funny and that was always my complaint with Arthur."" Producer Harrison Starr recalled, ""Warren and Arthur had go-arounds...the role was basically a role of an eccentric, a person whose inner demons were reflected in the world he inhabited...and I think that was difficult for Warren to play."" Nevertheless, Beatty and Penn soon teamed again for ""Bonnie and Clyde"" in 1967. The rediscovery of the film began in 1995 with a booking at San Francisco's Castro Theater and a reevaluation by"
"Itsy Bitsy Spider (film) Itsy Bitsy Spider is a 1992 American animated short film directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, written by Michael O'Donoghue and stars Frank Welker as the titular spider. Based on the homonymous rhyme, the short film was released along with the film ""Bébé's Kids"". It was rated PG by the MPAA for sci-fi cartoon violence. It is a family-friendly version of ""The Terminator"" and ""RoboCop"", and the pilot episode of the television series, which was aired on the USA Network to become a franchise. A young country spider Itsy befriends Leslie McGroarty, a perky young city girl who"
"told ""Premiere"" magazine that initially she had waited for Beatty to call her for the film. When Beatty did not reciprocate, the singer decided to involve herself voluntarily. She pursued the part of Mahoney, but offered to work for minimum wages to avoid favoritism. ""Dick Tracy"" was the ninth-highest-grossing film in the US in 1990, and number twelve globally. The film also received positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert from the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" praised the matte paintings, art direction and prosthetic makeup design, stating: """"Dick Tracy"" is one of the most original and visionary fantasies I've seen on a screen""."
"a revised title, ""The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco"", and further material by Salamon (in which she describes Bruce Willis's negative reaction to the book). The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The film, which was a critical and commercial flop, stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin. The"
"Bulworth Bulworth is a 1998 American political satire comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, and Isaiah Washington. The film follows the title character, California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth (Beatty), as he runs for re-election while trying to avoid a hired assassin. In March 1996, Democratic U.S. Senator Jay Bulworth of California is losing his bid for re-election to a fiery young populist. Bulworth's liberal views, formed in the 1960s and 1970s, have lost favor with voters, so he has conceded to more conservative politics"
"Angeles Times"" commented that ""Bulworth"" did ""extremely well"" on a limited release. The film grossed $29,202,884 worldwide at the box office. Bulworth Bulworth is a 1998 American political satire comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, and Isaiah Washington. The film follows the title character, California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth (Beatty), as he runs for re-election while trying to avoid a hired assassin. In March 1996, Democratic U.S. Senator Jay Bulworth of California is losing his bid for re-election to a fiery young populist. Bulworth's"
"thought was a strange emblem of America (an American gangster who was the son of Jewish immigrants who became fascinated with Hollywood and who also envisioned a desert city in which legal gambling is allowed). Several filmmakers attempted to make a film based on Bugsy's life, most famously French director Jean-Luc Godard, who wrote a script entitled ""The Story"" and envisioned Robert De Niro as Siegel and Diane Keaton as Virginia Hill. In the late 1970s, Beatty met screenwriter James Toback, with whom he became fast friends when Beatty was preparing ""Heaven Can Wait"". Years later, when Beatty was in"
"fiction, wrote that the film attempts to overcome its low budget with gratuitous violence but called Wells ""memorably nasty"". Circuitry Man Circuitry Man is a 1990 American post apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Steven Lovy and starring Jim Metzler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and Vernon Wells. It was followed by a sequel, """", in 1994. In a post-apocalyptic future, pollution has killed off the natural world and the population is forced to live underground. A woman attempts to smuggle a suitcase of contraband drug/chips from Los Angeles to the underground remnants of New York City, while eluding both police and gangsters."
"with bringing ""Tracy out to another generation."" Comics historian Mark Evanier said Caniff ""honored Shel by making him into a character. It was a well-meaning football player named ""Thud Shelley"" who appeared a few times in the Canyon strip. Jack Kirby also made Shel into a character ... a father figure named Himon who appeared in ""Mister Miracle"". In 1990, Dorf was employed as a consultant on Warren Beatty's big-screen adaptation of Dick Tracy. Dorf would also contribute interviews to the comics press and movie collector magazines (including for ""The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom"" <nowiki>[</nowiki>TBG<nowiki>]</nowiki> and ""Film Collector's World""),"
"empire from, and recruited Hi-Top and Restless Mahoney, the descendants of notorious criminals Flattop Jones and Breathless Mahoney. However, after his plan was foiled, it was revealed that Little Boy had no previous relationship to Big Boy at all, and had simply used his legacy for his own gain. In the 1990 film adaptation of the comic strip, Big Boy is played by Al Pacino in an Academy Award-nominated performance. It is in this film that Big Boy is first referred to as ""Alphonse 'Big Boy' Caprice."" The ""Caprice"" name has never been used in the comic strip. The movie"
"in 1990. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a conservative Republican country singer, Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins), and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal). The film is shot through the perspective of Terry Manchester (Brian Murray), a British documentary filmmaker who is following the Roberts campaign. Through his lens we see Roberts travel across the state, performing songs about drug users, lazy people and the triumph of traditional family values over the rebelliousness of the 1960s. As the campaign continues, Paiste remains in the lead until a scandal arises involving him and a young woman who was seen"
"reviews"". The film earned $8.8 million on its opening weekend to 1,804 theatres and was placed No. 1 at the box office. Its US earnings were 18th in 1989, and the film has earned nearly $80 million worldwide since its release. A television series was broadcast on CBS in 1990. It starred Kevin Meaney as Buck, a slob who drinks and smokes. When Bob and Cindy die in a car accident, he is named as the guardian of Tia, Miles, and Maizy. The show was not received well by TV critics. After it was moved to Friday, in an attempt"
"the box office. ""Bugsy"" received very positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 85%, based on 59 reviews, with the site's critical consensus reading, ""Stylishly scattered, ""Bugsy"" offers cinematic homage to the infamous underworld legend, chiefly through a magnetic performance from Warren Beatty in the title role."" Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four of four stars, saying """"Bugsy"" moves with a lightness that belies its strength. It is a movie that vibrates with optimism and passion, with the exuberance of the con-man on his game."" ""Bugsy"" won Academy Awards for Best Art"
"Beatty who liked the script but was reluctant to play a character driven by his erotic compulsions. Toback then considered Robert De Niro but ultimately decided the role should be played by a younger actor. The film was at Paramount. Then in 1984 Beatty bought it and set up the production at Fox. Toback says the film was ""not even remotely"" based on Beatty. ""The guy in the script chases after people. Warren always has people chasing after him."" It was Toback's fourth film as director. He says his first three ""were all dark movies that ended unhappily. Now I'm"
"would eventually take. However, the main theme of the film is not presidential politics, but sexual politics; it is renowned for its sharp satire of late-1960s sexual and social mores. The lead character, George Roundy, is reportedly based on several actual hairdressers, including Jay Sebring, Jack Sahakian, and film producer Jon Peters, who is a former hairdresser. Sebring was murdered by Charles ""Tex"" Watson in 1969. According to the 2010 book ""Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America"" by Peter Biskind, the screenwriter Towne based the character on Beverly Hills hairdresser Gene Shacove. In 1968, the eve of a presidential election"
"Captain America (1990 film) Captain America is a 1990 superhero film directed by Albert Pyun and written by Stephen Tolkin and Lawrence Block. The film is based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. While the film takes several liberties with the comic's storyline, it features Steve Rogers becoming Captain America during World War II to battle the Red Skull, being frozen in ice, and subsequently being revived to save the President of the United States from a crime family that dislikes his environmentalist policies. In Fascist Italy in 1936, the government kidnaps a boy, Tadzio de Santis,"
"the comic strip ""Dick Tracy"". More contemporary are the roles played by Jean Reno as Victor in the film ""La Femme Nikita"" (1990), Harvey Keitel as Victor in ""Point of No Return"" (1993), and a year later as Mr. Wolf in Quentin Tarantino's ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994) (parodied on ""Seinfeld""`s episode 155, ""The Muffin Tops"" (1997), where Newman makes the problem of leftover muffin stumps go away by eating them), George Clooney as the title character in ""Michael Clayton"", and Josh Brolin in ""Hail, Caesar!"" as a character loosely based on Eddie Mannix, real-life fixer for MGM. On television, similar roles"