Edition: U.S. / Global   Published: June 10, 1990  Though in
many ways wooden and expressly two-dimensional, the figure of
Dick Tracy has an enduring attraction. Right now, we see his
face everywhere. We can eat off it, lean back on it, walk the
dogs in it and wipe the dishes with it. Come Friday, we can see
a feature film in which Warren Beatty produces, directs and
plays the title role and Madonna warbles away in the role of an
archetypal temptress.  Dick Tracy's original success had a lot
to do with his two-dimensional unshadowed character.. This is
what made Dick Tracy into an all-American phenomenon. For close
on 60 years a favorite fix at breakfast time of households all
over the United States, he is a classless, timeless, ageless
phenomenon with universal appeal. He was the inevitable man, the
indispensable man and the invincible man. How could he not also
be the irresistible man?  His creator, Chester Gould, was too
smart ever to make Dick Tracy's public feel outmatched or
insecure. Tracy did not look