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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

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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.

I doubt even Izzy would wear that crazy outfit!

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.

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.

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.

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…

If this is the case though, then I can't imagine this was a sponsored placement, as if it were, the full label would be prominently displayed and better lit. The bottle was darker before I edited it in Photoshop. If it is the real thing, maybe the production crew just had a bottle lying around.

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 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

No thanks, lol…I’ll leave that to Magnum. And only Magnum could enjoy beer after a workout on the beach, and have no effects.

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.

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

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You can actually buy Coops Beer T-shirts.

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, that definitely looks like a real bottle of Wild Turkey. Even the wrapping around the necks & the tops of the bottles match.

I remember the “Magnum beer” , and Dukes of Hazzard used fake beer labels as well.

Thank you, assuming you meant mine. I wasn't sure whether anyone had seen it. "Fruit of the Poison Tree" is interesting because of its ties to earlier Gina episodes and an odd bonus. And even: (You can tell he's not Burnett anymore from the shaft of light and the fact he keeps Gina from killing the guy.) Black and White Gina. I thought this outfit seemed misplaced in The Lost Madonna, but having finally seen this episode, it makes much more sense here. The bonus: Everyone seems to mention her calling Enriquez "baby", and unlike "Sean", or "Frank", she doesn't call him "Roberto"... maybe a sign that she's either learned, she didn't actually sleep with him, or both. "Baby" is flung around a lot in the episode -- Boyle calls Lisa that. But the two instances where it's not used in any kind of manipulative, casual, or even faintly romantic context come from Sonny of all people. He says "Come on, baby, be there" when the rest of OCB is sitting there and Gina isn't, and then he says "Come here, baby," when she's hysterical over seeing Nicky killed in her stead. So it's clearly meant to be sincere... the question is just... why? He didn't have to call her anything, and he's never called her "baby" before... While I'm sure he's done it to others, the last significant one I can think of was Caroline, back in the cancelled divorce/hit list episode. (And that was "Don't worry, baby", and "I can't stay, baby".) What does it mean? Is it a mistake? A throw-in by DJ? A sign Sonny's feelings are the real ones in this episode? ...I don't really know.

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?

I now have a big question - how many bedrooms does this house really have? Because if it had only one, then it's maybe just some 50 houses we need to look at in the filtered county data map in target areas. So I reconstructed the floorplan... I am 99% confident in my reconstruction outside of the yellow cloud in the diagram below. Yellow cloud is where some incosistencies lie: I'm pretty sure that the bedroom has only two windows (at its head and next to the porch door). But the exterior shot clearly shows two windows close to each other on the right side (top in the diagram) of the house. So there must be another room, but I can't figure out the access to it unless it's a really odd floorplan with the master bedroom being a go-through zone leading to more of the house! The bathroom door and stuff on the wall to the left of it don't match. In bedroom scenes what I assume is the bathroom door is dark, in the bathroom scene it's light color with a whale figure on it. A strong assumption we can make is that they filmed the bathroom scene in another place. Is that unusual for production or is that plausible? The brown door must be the bathroom, it just makes sense for the master bedroom to have access to the only bathroom. The living room has some weird space - a closet with a window to outside. It's not good for my overall floorplan guesstimate If there are two bedrooms, why does Malcolm sleep on the couch after their argument whereas he could sleep more comfortably on the other bed? Granted, the second bedroom is not always set up as an actual bedroom. What's also interesting is that Malcolm invariably enters the home through the side door behind the car port. What's up with the front door? In fact they don't seem to have a proper front door, only the porch, which has a door on its side anyway (though the porch might have another door on the opposite side we can't see). What's up with the other side door they barricaded by a tripod? If you have time to follow my reconstruction, here are all the Malcolm house scenes in the movie, with my notes. 13:23 - 14:20 (love making scene) good view of the bedroom and the porch through the open door 15:52 - 17:44 (the shower scene) the key exterior shot of the full house plus the shower scene where we catch outside of the bathroom's window, and see another window through the bathroom door 30:06 - 32:01 (coming from the bar) nighttime car approach scene, a clear bedroom shot with a view into the living room and a window reflection in the mirror 36:01 - 40:26 (villain calling Malcolm), some living room shots including both their desks and the sliding doors behind Malcolm 45:53 - 47:41 (villain calling Malcolm), great living room shots, with the blocked door, and tying a lot together. Note that when Malcolm is coming from the shower, he's walking from the bedroom (a clue that the brown door is the bathroom) 50:49 - 51:45 (villain calling Malcolm) good bedroom and living room shots 53:23 - 56:31 (mailman attack) car port shots, the house across the road, great living room and kitchen shots tying a lot of dimensions together 74:11 - 75:02 (with the detective waiting for a call) great living room shots 91:40 - 98:44 (fight with villain) additional night road shot, a porch shot, a lot of living room, most importantly the view of the weird closet space with a window in it!

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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Can't wait to see this one! -J

Yup!

Wait, are you saying that this road: is SE 8th St?

You solved this one. It's the parking lot behind (east of) 777 Brickell and the camera is looking southward at Brickell Bay Drive. The security gates are real and they're for 777 Brickell. This movie was released in February 1985, which means it was filmed in 1984. In the 1984 aerial, they hadn't even broken ground yet on 701 Brickell.

Another unidentified location is the first fake Miami Journal parking lot. The other fake parking lot was figured out before by @miamijimf, which was straightforward with the church view in the background. Here the main shot is this: Then he pulls into some surace lot on the right. On the left of the above frame, we can make out a Four Ambassadors sign: If there's indeed the Four Ambassadors on the left, my best guess is that this is Brickell Bay Drive looking south, where we can match some structures with the shot above. However, did they really build fake security gates for this one shot? Maybe they were there before for something else. Is that road way in the back was that bad? It almost looks like a dirt road. Maybe just a lot of dirt coming off trucks leaving construction sites. Finally, I'm not sure there was a surface lot at the time to pull into later in the scene.

Maybe 3 bottles of Perrier?

Fine piece.

Sorry for the confusion, I am a different poster and compared my own jacket to that of MichaelAce, and I think that his tailor did a really great job. Here is a showcase of what I mean: On mine the shoulder is rotated outwards, and by changing the slope (right side, just pinned) it looks more like the usual shoulder drape of a jacket. Cheers everyone!

Great post

Long gone 21 Street Pizza, it was next to the "21 Street Cinema" sign visible in teasers of Little Prince and Florence Italy, the "Gayety Burlesque" establishment and close to then famous Wolfie´s on the corner. I lived across that block in the early 90s when the signs were still there. All razed later.

Where is this huge parking lot?