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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: Reds, Heaven Can Wait, Dick Tracy, Bulworth. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dick Tracy is a 1990 American pulp action film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. Warren Beatty produced, directed, and starred in the film, which features supporting roles from Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, and Charlie Korsmo. Dick Tracy depicts the detective's love relationships with Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) and Tess Truehart (Headley), as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice (Pacino). Tracy also begins his upbringing of "The Kid" (Korsmo). Development of the film started in the early 1980s with Tom Mankiewicz assigned to write the script. The project also went through directors Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Walter Hill, and Richard Benjamin before the arrival of Beatty. Filming was entirely at Universal Studios. Danny Elfman was hired to compose the film score, and the music was featured on three separate soundtrack albums. Dick Tracy was released in 1990 to mixed reviews, but was generally a success at the box office and at awards time. It picked up seven Academy Award nominations and won in three of the categories. A sequel was planned, but a controversy over the film rights ensued between Beatty and Tribune Media Services, so a second film has not been produced. At an illegal card game, a young street urchin witnesses the massacre of mobsters Shoulders, Stooge, the Rodent, the Brow, and Little Face by Flattop and Itchy. Flattop and Itchy are on the payroll of "Big Boy" Caprice whose crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. Detective Dick Tracy catches the urchin (who calls himself "Kid") in an act of petty thef...http://booksllc.net/?id=725984 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

An Entertaining Read For Fans of Both the Movie & Comic Strip!!
I got this book in the mail two days after Christmas, I began to read it and I've come to realize how much the novelization is a extended cut of the film (sort of, considering it's a book). I've been reading it so far and it's definitely the kind of book you can't put down, a real pageturner. I haven't got close to the end of the book as of the time of this review, but if you love the comic strip and if you loved the movie, you'll definitely enjoy this literary rendition of the "Dick Tracy" movie. I should know because I am enjoying it very much.

Super Reader
Seeing Max Allan Collins wrote this, it is competently handled, and different to the movie as he saw fit, Tracy expert and writer that he is.

I think he might have even modeled a kid on his son. Anyway, this is not too bad at all, so definitely worth a look. ... Read more

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Chapters: Sandra Bullock, Warren Beatty, George C. Scott, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Maclaine, Randolph Scott, Chris Brown, Taryn Manning, Wayne Newton, David Arquette, Wanda Sykes, Bill Robinson, Patton Oswalt, Mackenzie Phillips, Casey Wilson, William Haines, William Russ, Patrick Wilson, Mae Murray, Jason Sudeikis, Doris Eaton Travis, Bob Saget, John Payne, Carl Anderson, Lynn Bari, Frances Sternhagen, Olive Borden, Dermot Mulroney, Skeet Ulrich, Rob Estes, Diedrich Bader, Tim Reid, Jesse L. Martin, Chyler Leigh, Michelle Krusiec, Jennifer Aspen, Julia Faye, Stephen Bogardus, Peggie Castle, Jayma Mays, Billy Campbell, Hunter Parrish, Megan Young, David Homyk, Connie Britton, Edith Taliaferro, Stephen Furst, Schuyler Fisk, Caroline Aaron, Theresa Merritt, Maura Soden, Rob Huebel, Michael Copon, Frankie Faison, Chaney Kley, Jamia Simone Nash, Kathleen Clifford, Richard Arlen, Aurora Jolie, Courtney Jines, Diane Neal, John Wesley Shipp, Marc Vann, Zachary Knighton, Mabel Taliaferro, Kathryn Harrold, Steve Cardenas, Will Yun Lee, Joyce Bulifant, Erin Cahill, Chris Ashworth, Donna Dixon, Tim Abell, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jason Konopisos, Hansford Rowe, Virginia Fox, Nancy Kyes, Christopher Khayman Lee, Alan Campbell, Stoney Jackson, Anthony Clark, India Allen, Martin Vidnovic, Jimmy Workman, Alex Huynh, Kristen Kerr, Mark Lawson, J. Eddie Peck, Don Bexley, Leah Ray, Elinor Fair, Jane Brucker, Lauri Hendler, Chuck Carrington, Skip Hinnant, Lauren Hays, Donté Bonner, Jim Moody, Tony Perez, Ellen Bethea, Lila Chester. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 455. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American recording artist and actor. He made his recording debut in late 2005 with the self-titled album Chris Brown at the age of 16. The album feat...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2627820 ... Read more