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With a flap of pink-flamingo wings, a whoosh of speedboats in the bay, and the rear-swinging amble of burnished girls in bikinis, the TV series "Miami Vice" launched itself week after week as a thoroughly sleazy delight. The show, which played on NBC from 1984 to 1989, was an enormous pop-culture event--the media poetry of the cocaine era. Raspy-voiced Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, of the leopard eyes, were the stars--two cocky but not very talented male beauties who spoke in innuendos and dressed in pink T-shirts, Armani (white or gray), and sockless loafers. Anthony Yerkovich created the series, but Michael Mann, ...

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