Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they will be before the hour is over. The plots whiz by with a minimum of exposition, the dialogue is tough and spare, the rock music almost nonstop. Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops. The local color of South Florida is augmented by the local colors: flamingo pink, lime green, Caribbean blue. Miami Vice has been filmed under what may be the strangest production edict in TV history: "No earth tones...
...done on location in Miami (at an average budget of $1.3 million per episode, compared with $1 million for a typical cop-show episode), the show goes to unusual lengths to find the right settings and props. "I found this house that was really perfect," says Roth, "but the color was sort of beige. The art department instantly painted the house gray for me. Even on feature films people try to deliver what is necessary but no more. At Miami Vice they start with what's necessary and go beyond...
...Miami Vice is a cop show--very well done and stylish, but still a cop show," says Bruce Paltrow, the executive producer of St. Elsewhere. "It's hip and glib, but not very deep." Concedes Creator Yerkovich: "In the long run you can only rely so much on color coding and Bauhaus architecture and the Versace spring catalog." Yet Vice may be revving up to move beyond such trendy props. "As soon as they get a handle on the script situation," says Yerkovich, "the show is going to burn rubber." With Crockett and Tubbs at the wheel of their Ferrari...
...people who participate are dead serious and well off. According to Triathlon magazine, their average age is 34, they graduated from college, they earn $45,000 a year and 40% of them carry an American Express card of one color or another. Says Beth Schneider-Needel, one of the organizers of the Chicago race: "It's just a natural extension of the aggression they take to their careers. Because they work, they have to train in the mornings, at lunch and at night. It's hell on your social life, and you don't get much sleep...
...under 45, with some college education, employed and affluent. But access to such a demographic bull's-eye is expensive. A page sells for $27,000, about the same amount that Vogue charges for a similar space. Bloomingdale's is more demanding than the fashion magazines, requiring that the color, copy and image of the ads visually blend with the store's offerings...