In drawing its supporting cast from New York theater actors in general, and downtown celebrities in particular, Miami Vice became a harbinger of the greater fluidity between New York and Los Angeles, stage and television, independent and corporate that would come in alongside premium cable, location shooting and the Golden Age of Television-and a vivid, sidelong portrait of the years that Downtown 1980s bohemia broke. The casting of Miami Vice is one branch of the seriously splashy aesthetic developed by Michael Mann in collaboration with longtime colleagues like his casting director, Bonnie Timmermann. At a time when the kind of celebrity ratified by NBC, ABC and CBS rarely overlapped with the kind of celebrity ratified-or parodied-at New Wave clubs and performance spaces like The Kitchen and Performing Garage and Club 57, you and any schmoe in Peoria could turn on Miami Vice and see Beck’s wife and Living Theatre cofounder Judith Malina, Wooster Group cofounder Ron Vawter, monologist Eric Bogosian, Eszter Balint of the Hungarian-expatriate storefront troupe the Squat Theater, Liquid Sky’s Anne Carlisle, enfant-terrible theater director Peter Sellars, Latin disco musician Coati Mundi and performer Steve Buscemi. Miguel Piñero, the Puerto Rican playwright who played a crime lord in the show’s pilot, returned as a different kingpin alongside Luis Guzmán and Paul Calderón, who had appeared in productions of his prison play Short Eyes. 45, Zoë Tamerlis (later Lund) off-Broadway magician sensation Penn Jillette. Shot partly in New York City at the peak of the show’s imperial phase, the Miami Vice season two premiere drew heavily from the alternative performance scene that flourished there in the wake of The Living Theatre: the Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s Charles Ludlam Ms. Cultured and skeletal-Beck died of cancer before the episode aired-the trickster-god font of post-WWII American avant-garde theater makes an indelible impression in his first and only role on primetime network television, opposite Dallas on CBS and a Very Special Episode of Diff’rent Strokes on ABC. Julian Beck, cofounder of The Living Theatre, appears in the feature-length season two premiere of Miami Vice as a Mephistophelean financier.
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on Friday, September 27, 1985, after Knight Rider and before the late local news, one of every five American TV sets was tuned to NBC to see the theatrical impresario who would send his casts into audiences to beg for change, was arrested for indecency after stripping alongside ticket buyers and had disrupted his own trial for tax evasion with spasms of poetry. Bonnie Timmermann, Eric Bogosian, Eszter Balint, John Nicolella, Law & Order, miami vice, Michael Mann, Paul Calderon, Spring 2021īetween 9 and 11 p.m.
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