WEEKENDER cover story for July 3, 2009, cover designed by RICK WILLIAMS WEEKENDER cover story for July 3, 2009, cover designed by RICK Published July 02, 2009 06:16 pm - Michael Mann, the son of Jack and Esther Mann and the director and co-writer of “Public Enemies,” grew up all around Chicago Director remembers dark side of Chicago By MICHAEL PHILLIPS - Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Michael Mann, the son of Jack and Esther Mann and the director and co-writer of “Public Enemies,” grew up all around Chicago. At 66, his voice retains remnants of the flat, hard “a’s” of his old neighborhood. His reputation as another sort of hard-a precedes him. The director of “Thief,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Heat,” “Ali” and “Collateral” and the creator of “Miami Vice” has been described widely as a perfectionist, a hothead, a martinet and a...
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