Leonard Maltin

2008 'Dick Tracy' TV Special Is Highly Informative, Very Weird
2008 'Dick Tracy' TV Special Is Highly Informative, Very Weird
2008 'Dick Tracy' TV Special Is Highly Informative, Very Weird
A few weeks ago, Matt Wilson and I watched Dick Tracy, the 1990 adaptation of the classic comic strip, directed, produced by and starring Warren Beatty. It's a pretty interesting movie, something that Beatty had wanted to do since the '70s that was clearly styled as a reaction to the success of Batman '89, a strange and ambitious project with a whole lot of fascinating flaws. But what's even stranger is the half-hour special that aired 18 years later, where Beatty reprized his role so that he could be interviewed, in character, by Leonard Maltin.