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Philip Michael Thomas (born May 26, 1949) is a retired American actor and musician, best known for his role as detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series Miami Vice. His first notable roles were in Coonskin (1975) and opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film Sparkle .
While other television shows used made-for-TV music, Miami Vice would spend $10,000 or more per episode to buy the rights to original recordings. [4] Getting a song played on Miami Vice was a boost to record labels and artists. [23] Some newspapers, such as USA Today, would let readers know the songs that would be featured each week. [24]
When the first season of Miami Vice became a "breakthrough hit", [19] the "smooth and swinging" [24] character of Tubbs became a style icon—Bloomingdale's reported "noticeable" rises in the sales of blazers and jackets; whilst Kenneth Cole brought out "Crockett" and "Tubbs" shoes, and Macy's opened a "Miami Vice" young men's section [19] The ...
The Miami Vice intertitle (color scheme as per season three) The following is an episode list for the 1980s American undercover cop television series Miami Vice. In the United States, the show was broadcast on NBC. The first episode of the series premiered on September 16, 1984, with the series concluding on June 28, 1989, after five seasons.
On how a sailfish ultimately decided if he’d go out for what would be his life-changing turn as cop Sonny Crockett in opposite Philip Michael Thomas’s Rico Tubbs in Miami Vice (1984-1989):
Miami Vice is a 2006 action crime film [4] written, directed, and co-produced by Michael Mann.An adaptation of the 1980s television series of the same name, of which Mann was an executive producer, it stars Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, MDPD detectives who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations.
In the early years of the 21st century, it looked like Michael Mann and Jamie Foxx were going to be Hollywood's latest dynamic director-actor duo, following in the footsteps of Martin Scorsese and ...
Miami-Dade prosecutors were forced to retry Calloway’s death sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida’s death penalty law in 2016, which only required a majority vote.