Petty Revenge: Warren Beatty and Dick Tracy | The Internet Says it's True
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In 2009 and again in 2023, Warren Beatty shows up on TV in the middle of the night on an obscure interview-style show. He's dressed as his 1990 Dick Tracy character and the appearances are just BIZARRE. That's because they have one sole purpose: to keep the Dick Tracy rights in Beatty's name. In this episode, we talk about the Dick Tracy movie and this crazy ploy to keep the rights out of pure spite.

I guess there was a huge legal fight that he eventually won through argument and opponent apathy, so as long as he doesn’t let the character sit completely idle, he keeps the rights despite no longer giving a fuck either. It’s utterly petty, and if I cared more about Dick Tracy I’d probably find it infuriating rather than hilarious.

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2023

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Considering he has a reputation of being an extremely petty person, that wouldn’t shock me. But it also wouldn’t shock me if he thought everyone loved Dick Tracy because he’s Warren Beatty and what Warren Beatty loves, everyone loves. It’s just that those bastard producers just don’t get it that every kid in America is glued to their newspaper every morning reading the adventures of Dick Tracy.