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I'm 99% sure this is a bottle of Wild Turkey. Look at the font and location of the description on the label

I doubt even Izzy would wear that crazy outfit!

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I feel like Switek in Phil the Shill (our minute of fame for some smart ass answers to questions most people cannot even imagine like "There were in fact 8 bathrooms in Graceland and I used the one next to the kitchen .....")

I saw this ad on Facebook for a “Nautica Miami Vice Collection” and this hardly look Vice. The only thing I find “Vicey” is the cotton/linen blazer and pleated pants. Even most of the Facebook comments are negative and Nautica has limited who can comment on the post. https://www.nautica.com/miami-vice/?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=tin_naut_soc_meta_cnsd_prosp_na_mxd_usa_collab_vari_prosp_miamivice&utm_id=6574553101293&utm_content=6574553101693-traf_unisex_prosp_aff_na&utm_term=6574829839493-meta_apr24_gif_mvxnautica3_vari_shopnow&fbclid=IwAR2gcgPyLWX3x6Cn6O-MDIfXBq9Gpmk7PQRXtG7rlTHNRYcl1b_19FrFdck_aem_AdkJIoRhW3MbRwzoLXrqhCNg61wJF_8vf4AUjN6-eHQF1fa83EKetTPcL6qVHSGE7gQnlMsbSRTsjsKTC7V9ZugT

4994 Hammock Lake Dr in Hammock Lakes, Gables Estates \ South Miami featured in the teaser “ Deliver Us From Evil “ - I visited this gated community last week just south from Coconut Grove, Coral Gables and off the Old Cutler Highway. Miami Vice shot around this area a number of times in Season 4 and 5. Enjoy the snaps I took to mirror and more what we see in this fine episode which aired in the Spring of 1988.

This wasn’t product placement at all for all the reasons you mention, plus another. Product placement was very uncommon at the time when the three networks dominated and mass audience appeal was king. Showing a particular product reduced advertising revenue opportunities. Why would Coke pay for an ad slot on a show that featured Pepsi placement. I think this wasn’t relevant in this particular instance because advertising of liquor on TV was not legal, so there could be no competitors. They simply used an existing bottle rather than going to the trouble of creating a false label. It was also not particularly featured in the scene as you explained. Beer, on the other hand, was a different story and labels were created. I recall seeing on the Carol Burnett Show many years ago, skits where the characters held cans with the label reading Beer! This added to the humor. Another example is Magnum pi, from the same era. It frequently referenced a fictitious beer called Old Düsseldorf and another called Coops that looked strikingly like a Coors labels in its design.

In the 80s they couldn’t show as much with sex scenes on TV. But, it was definitely implied that Crockett and Gina had a sexual relationship. I don’t think their races had anything to do with that (whether the characters or the actors in real life). Perhaps if they had tried to get Crockett and Trudy together it would have had a different impact…but, MV crossed a lot of barriers & pushed the proverbial envelope with lots of things at the time. One was they included a lot of races, ethnic backgrounds, and cultures in different episodes. And no, it wasn’t specifically Crockett…but the show did have or portray some interracial relationships. Castillo had May Ying (who was Asian), Noogie had a white wife, and Tubbs’ former partner Clarence Batisse (from the episode “Better Living Through Chemistry”) had a white girlfriend and/or wife, just to name a few off the top of my head. I think that for the time, MV was awesome with again…trying to include many different ethnic backgrounds, cultures, races, etc…

This is the pistol used in the series. Michael Mann was a gun guy who had graduated from Gunsite and knew his handguns well.

Gee whizz, @Tom and I have been approached by the editor-in-chief of the Miami New Times about a week ago and were asked if we could contribute some insights on how we identified this and other locations, as well as some information on miamiviceonline.com in general. We gladly complied with this request, and here is the result: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/mansion-miami-vice-coconut-grove-for-sale-moorings-way-19463291

After the Santa Monica location seen in “ Free Verse “ and “ Asian Cut “ — I went to the Los Angeles neighborhood area of Burbank on Friday and to 2901 West Alameda Avenue. Did the best I could inside the small studio complex. We see this set up shot in Season 3s “ Stone’ s War “. This came from another 1980s show and I think was used in “ Dynasty “ and “ Murder She Wrote”. from “ Stone’s War “ —- My shots 19th April, 2024– Burbank

Add to this the fact Vice was really conceived by Mann as primarily a visual vehicle and it makes the change even more significant. Vice is rather unique when compared to other shows in that way. You can see the changes during season one as the impact of Yerkovich and his more traditional character-driven plotting and focus recedes and Mann's more visual emphasis takes over. Then you take Mann away and there's really nothing left to fall back on.

Sorry that happened to your family! But unfortunately this and even worse was a frequent occurrence back in the late 80s. I personally remember from my time in Miami several fatal incidents with European tourists who received their rental cars at the airport and drove to Miami Beach, but took the wrong exit and ended in Overtown or other dangerous areas. There they mostly stopped, rolled down the windows and asked for directions. That was often enough to trigger a robbery, car theft or even worse. I remember that Miami reacted by removing rental tags on license plates, adding big „To Miami Beach“ signs and patrol cars on all crucial routes from the airport. That was big news on TV at that time. Luckily I never had any trouble. Maybe because I blended in with the neighborhood, spoke American accent and avoided bad areas. But being too fearful and deeming all others as potential risks can also create unjustified prejudice. I remember walking with a friend 2 miles to the Metrorail station in South Miami as no cabs there and we had not enough cab money to spend anyway. On our route a bunch of afroamerican guys played basketball in a front yard of a modest house and we started getting nervous walking by when they recognized us and started talking to us. But they only cordially invited us to join the game (we declined politely with a joke as they were all >6,5“ tall and we looked like hobbits against them). Later I was ashamed of my immediate preconditioned thought they would attack us, simply based on the initial vibe of the situation. But it was hard to tell at that time who had good intentions. In recent years most areas of Miami got much safer and overall crime rates plummeted. I spent lots of time there with my family in the last 20 years and we never had any nasty situations.

Izzy is Cuban, so no...they didn't leave them out. It's also implied that Castillo is of Cuban origin as well ("Charles Bronson by way of Havana") in the first episode he appears. So once again they weren't excluded.

I was disappointed in my recent trip to Miami Beach coming into town from California - it has become such a party town . No respect for the show that started the town again in the 1980s. What suprised me was the fighting on Ocean Drive — groups of girls fighting and cops everywhere, really rough. I love this city it’s in my heart but there should be more class like North Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Key Biscayne and Lauderdale by the Sea.

I have very broad shoulders myself. It proves problematic on airliners. I’m not only very tall, but the shoulder width requires me to literally lean in if I’m on the aisle for the drink cart to go by. As far as the jacket tailoring, I would then suggest that the armhole is higher than the one DJ wore or the shoulder of the body is shorter causing the sleeve to sit higher. My mother was quite the amateur tailor, having patterned and constructed suits for my father. I learned quite a bit by default. I’m no expert by any means though. She made me numerous custom fitted shirts when I was a young man. In my teens and 20’s she would ask what new shirts I would like for my birthday. She made me everything from alohas, to guayaberas to dress shirts and more. One year I remember her making me a banded collar dress shirt that was not terribly common, but had a bit of popularity in the 80’s. This was way before the internet where everything is available. I got more than one compliments wearing that one.

Miami most expensive house

Interestingly, this recent article from Architectural Digest just came into my newsfeed: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/most-expensive-zip-codes-in-the-united-states Miami Beach is number two, California has the most, then New York, and there are a couple of surprises.

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Gina was always named as "Gina Navarro Calabrese" in all promo material and was shown to speak fluent Spanish from the earliest episodes, so they weren't exactly hiding her Hispanic side. In the early 80's I think the Lucy/Desi paradigm of Latin-heritage people being seen as more "foreigners" rather than a different race additionally held sway. Furthermore, she and Crockett were never shown making love; they had a real kiss once and sat next to each other mostly naked, and they flirted a lot, in addition to clearly having strong feelings for each other (all of which would have probably outraged any supposed racists had Gina not been "white enough"). But his extended sex scenes were with other (white) women (and Gina's impactful ones were with other Caucasian-European men; the one episode of interaction she had with a guy who played a Hispanic character was stilted, to say the least). I don't think they were whitewashing Gina's character for public consumption simply because I don't think people would have cared. "Hispanic" has never really been the kind of interracial relationship trigger in the US that White + "Black" or "Asian" or even "Jewish" have been. And as others have said, it didn't really factor into the plot, wasn't treated like an interracial relationship, and basically no one noticed. If Crockett had tried to date Trudy or Gina had gone out with Tubbs, there probably would have been much more attention.

From “Free Verse “ the establishing shot of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, Ca at 17th St and Pico in the Pico district. I took these last week. ( Santa Monica College, Business Building, 2198 17th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405 ). And below as we see in Season 5s “ Asian Cut “.

Today we celebrate the Birthday of the man who wrote the Theme song for Miami Vice & scored the original music for the entire series........ Jan hammer! If anyone would like to see all the movies & TV shows Jan wrote music for, put his name in Wikipedia & you'll be amazed! Enjoy your Special Day, Mr. Jan Hammer!

Dang it, I'm sorry, I have no idea how to fix it on my end, it works fine for me... Here are a few screenshots at least. The whole place was packed with people and vendors. Everybody brought chairs and blankets and filled the whole central lawn and really everything else around. They even pulled in a couple of cars, I think it was an ad for a auto shop.

Yes, that must have been a set, as we have never encountered any such big structure anywhere at Jimbo´s from our previous location hunts for MV that only took place a few years before Wild Things was filmed. I even remember that one building there was a leftover from a legendary low budget alien movie in the 70s (I think @miamijimf provided that intel), so this place was known for some productions building sets there.

The West Coast one looks like Body Heat.

"Fruit of the Poison Tree", Part 2 aka, "the fifth Burnett episode" He doesn't even look at Gina in his dream. He never has a single flashback about her, over the course of months, not that we can tell. Ever wonder why? Sonny is obviously very isolated for the Burnett episodes, including in his own mind. Gina may be even more isolated for this one; even though she's supposedly in contact with OCB, she's still clearly living very much in her own world with her own fake identity, right up until Sonny and Rico arrive just late enough. (Sonny also has to wear a bunch of dark things in this episode because someone has made off with his pure-white shtick.) "Poison Tree" has an almost-identical opening to "Hostile Takeover" (you can guess which's which): Gina's dress actually shows up at Celeste's party, on a blonde woman with a face we don't see, before we even and right after we see Celeste: And now it's time for the person who set this up to pay. A little hard to know if that's a jacket and t-shirt or dark shirt and tie, at first glance. A little hard to tell which "pretty boy" she's pointing the gun at, for symbolic reasons... Forgiveness? Maybe. But whether there's one or two or however many Sonnys, you can't see his face. Celeste is blonde, but there are multiple occasions her hair is made to appear black, either by wearing something over or near it. See the white flowers on the bottle Sonny's drinking out of...? ("Who are you?", indeed...) So– he never calls Gina "baby", before "Poison Tree"... but he does call Celeste that, a couple of times. With all the references to the arc in the episode, Sonny may not be Burnett anymore, but it probably makes sense that some things from that period are carrying back over. Especially with his chain of calling Gina "Caroline" and calling Celeste "Caitie"... especially if it's heavily implied some part of him was always viewing Celeste as somebody other than that, too. Why is Gina absent from the Burnett episodes? She's not. She's present on a different level. (Then she gets one of her own.)

Since we added 3 newly identified locations that weren't on CGlide's page (Sam's house, Cafe Under the Tree, and fake beach villa in Crandon park) I thought I'd go ahead and summarize the locations like I did in the Mean Season post. I omit locations that are unknown and "uninteresting" which we could never put on the map anyway, like airboating in the middle of nowhere in the Everglades or sailing somewhere in the ocean. Intro pan Coopertown, 22700 US-41, Miami Intro pan Tamiami Trail Shops, 13760 SW 8th St, Miami Intro pan, a neighborhood Unidentified Intro pan Old Cutler Bay Intro pan Downtown from Biscayne Blvd Intro pan Brickell near 8th St Intro pan Brickell Key towards the bay Intro pan Gables Estates Blue Bay high school Ransom Everglades High School, 3575 Main Hwy, Miami Van Ryan mansion Star Island, 40 W Star Island Dr, Miami Beach Sam's house Coconut Grove, 4156 Crawford Ave, Miami Police department Coral Gables city hall, 405 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables Lawyer's office Retail plaza in Opa-locka, 353 Opa-locka Blvd Blue Bay Yacht Club Coral Reef Yacht Club, 2484 S Bayshore Dr, Miami Smilin' Jack's Fish Camp bar Jimbo's Place, Virginia Key Car crash Unidentified Courthouse Miami-Dade County Courthouse, 73 W Flagler St, Miami Courthouse Dyer Federal Building And Courthouse, 300 NE 1st Ave, Miami Driving from the courthouse Rickenbacker Causeway Cafe Under the Tree Cafe Under the Tree, 103 Perviz Ave, Opa-locka Glades Motel Jimbo's Place, Virginia Key ??? SunTrust bank SunTrust bank, 501 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale Suzie murder Virginia Key Dumping the body Unidentified Island beach Crandon beach Lawyer scene Unidentified So as I was going through all that referencing CGlide's page, I just can't wrap my head around the Glades motel at Jimbo's. Maybe you guys can help me out as I suspect Jimbo's has been researched in and out before for MV. We first see Jimbo's used when Sam goes to this dive bar: He then walks out of that building and looks at a motel across the road - the Glades motel: In another scene the two are connected in one shot (the bar is in the compound on the right): Later we even get a view from inside the motel, showing the compound across: CGlide puts it all togeher on a relatively new satellite image with the white rectangle as the bar and the motel in blue (in pink is Suzie's trailer): With all of it being here on Virginia Key: What I can't understand though - was that motel built as a set?? Because I cannot identify it on historic aerials from the time. 1999: Jimbo's place moved from Miami to this location in 1954 (and closed in 2012), as per this video, which provides a nice overview of the compound. There is a sign in the video saying 'Rooms' pointing somewhere but I'm not sure if that lodging reference was to the motel. Here is a great article describing the place - no motel mention. Confusingly, this 2007 article places the whole Jimbo's compound into a different Virginia Key area, at the bridge to Key Biscayne. I would really appreciate if somebody has a view on how/where this hotel was over there.

Thank you for posting - great.

The changes weren't just cosmetic, all of the writers left along with the executive producer and line producer. Season 3 was a brand new platform. Imagine David Chase, Terrence Winter and all of the writers leaving after season 2 of The Sopranos, the vision for the series would go down a different path.

Our city , 1982 — two years before Miami Vice started filming in March 1984. ( source - Miami Herald ).

I take my hat off to you--this bottle does look almost identical to the one shown on the show. I didn't find any with the UPC code or a lot of small print text in google Images. With improved lighting and resolution I think we could confirm it 100%.

Well actually, it is unconstructed, just like I asked ! Nothing in there but light linen Maybe I just have square shoulders ? In which case, I take the compliment

This is very much the case. Vice had an unusual amount of fluidity in show runners/producers/whatever, even for the time. And don't forget the main focus of Vice was usually visual. Characters were at times an afterthought. Castillo is an exception, but that has more to do with EJO and his conditions for working on the show.

Yeah but that was in a brand new season with new writers. Season 3 is basically a different show. She wasn't specifically mentioned as Spanish during 1-2.

Judging from what we can see of the side of the front label in this image, I'd guess it's actually Wild Turkey. Back then you didn't see near as many varieties of stuff. It also wasn't considered especially high-end at the time, either.

I'll hazard a guess that this is a fake Hollywood label. I googled "Wild Turkey Bourbon" images and studied the logos of the various bottles (Wild Turkey makes a number of different age/ proof bourbons). The font and label don't really look like anything I was able to pull up, although I don't know whether their logo and labels was formatted differently 40 years ago (I mean the other day!).

I'm starting another binge-watching session, and just finished this episode. What kind of whiskey does Crockett have on the boat? The following screengrab is from around the 1 hour and six-minute mark, just before Tubbs comes abord and gets threatened with the flare gun. The word "Wild," is obvious, but It's not possible to make out the rest from the part of the bottle that was in frame. Is this an actual bottle of Wild Turkey, something else commercially available, or just a fake Hollywood label, deliberately partially obscured?

It was terrible for me, but then I clicked on "Backup" and it worked great. This movie was pretty good, far better than many other Miami movies. Very formulaic serial killer story, but the newsroom aspect was cool. Good cast.

Horrible indeed....

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I saw it on Instagram, and had the same feelings, including about the suit.

No, I'm almost a life long fan of the 1911 ever since I was a Kid shooting with my uncles. I actually have a few 1911 Customs by Mr. Heinie that I'm blessed to have.

I personally think it's asphalt. In fact I just found a house while randomly browsing which has an approach which I believe is very similar to what Malcolm's house has (compare back with my highlighted screenshot with curves and thin curbs): In fact that's probably exactly what he does in that night drive-up scence - he turns to the left towards the house to get into this loop and stops in it. This particular house is in Miami Shores. I was browsing that area because it is directly north of victims 2-3 house, has decently think vegetation in many places, and was probably underdeveloped vs Miami at the time, so there is more chances for that rough road without sidewalks and curbs and drains etc., and some weird random street configuations which I think what this house implies. E.g. check out this street a block away from the above house, very good vibe:

@Gary1911A1 I’ve only just now realized where you got your name Or is it coincidence?

Yup!

Maybe 3 bottles of Perrier?

The best.

In all honesty, I don’t believe the character of Gina’s race or ethnic background had anything to do with having a relationship with Crockett. Both were immensely attracted to, and deeply cared about & for the other. Their races (whether the characters or the actors in real life) had nothing to do with it. I don’t really watch MV, looking for racial issues (unless part of the plot revolved around or included that). But, I think MV did an immensely superb job of including many races, ethnic backgrounds, cultures, etc…