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...Stylish...
...competing for attention with what many consider the real stars of Miami Vice: the music and the visual pyrotechnics. Both are largely the contributions of Michael Mann, who joined the show as executive producer when NBC decided to turn Yerkovich's pilot into a series. Mann had directed the stylish film thriller Thief and the TV movie The Jericho Mile, as well as creating the TV series Vega$. But Miami Vice marked his first opportunity to bring a cinematic eye to the small screen...
...everyone is so enthusiastic about the direction Miami Vice is taking TV. "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...
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...more than ten years now, foreign shoemakers have been walking all over their American rivals. Stylish and inexpensive leather footwear from such countries as Taiwan, Brazil and South Korea will account for some 75% of sales in the U.S. this year. But if American manufacturers have lost the battle in the marketplace, they have tried to recoup in the political arena. For more than a year the industry has been waging a campaign to persuade President Reagan to impose quotas on shoes made overseas. Enlisted in the effort were 168 Congressmen, 40 Senators and 20 Governors, who sent letters...