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...There is a very definite attempt to give the show a particular look," says Bobby Roth, who directed a Miami Vice episode last season and is now executive producer of the new ABC series The Insiders. "There are certain colors you are not allowed to shoot, such as red and brown. If the script says 'A Mercedes pulls up here,' the car people will show you three or four different Mercedes. One will be white, one will be black, one will be silver. You will not get a red one or a brown one. Michael knows how things are going...
...virtually all filming 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...
...stars as Gene Simmons of Kiss and Peter Allen. The show is also playing a major role (along with such new series as Amazing Stories and The Twilight Zone) in attracting writers and directors who have previously avoided television. "The old stigma against TV is gone now," says Bobby Roth. "A lot of shows are going to sound better, and they are going to look better. And I think Miami Vice is a big reason for that...
Returning Players to Watch: Jamie Potkul (RB), Ted Moskala (DT), Pat McCormick (LB), Greg Roth (TE), Keiron Bigby (WR), Steve Kettleberger...
...bitch.' Ilka thought that's what she wanted to be--a bitch and a looker. Think of the opportunities!" The voluble, repetitious Bayoux cannot match her lunatic poignancy, but he can be an apt foil and in the end helps to prove that the immigrant novel, from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Lost in America to Lore Segal's Her First American, remains inexhaustible...