{"id":12830,"date":"2012-11-14T07:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T12:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2012-12-09T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:41:16","slug":"miami-vice-synchro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=12830","title":{"rendered":"Miami Vice Synchro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/180px-BabyBluesBomb.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12832\" title=\"vice\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/180px-BabyBluesBomb.jpg?resize=384%2C285&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our books that we\u2019re bringing back into digital format is <em>The Making of Miami Vice, <\/em>a behind the scenes look at how the original \u00a0TV show was made. In proofing the scanned file, we ran across an incredible synchronicity in a chapter entitled <em>Gags.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gags <\/em>are stunts that stunt men perform in movies and TV. Car chases, boat chases, motorcycles chases, explosions, air ram stunts. In a typical episode of <em>Vice<\/em>, there were four or five gags per show and each episode had a gag budget of $10,000, and that\u2019s in 1980s dollars. When you consider that the overall cost per episode was $1.4 million, that ten grand was just a drop in the bucket.<\/p>\n<p>There was a stunt coordinator and stunt men, special effects experts, pyrotechnic experts, all the behind the scenes people who made every effect, every stunt, look real. A man named Paul Nuckles was the stunt coordinator when we were writing about the show. He directed the action for the gags and coordinated with the stunt men for Don Johnson (Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Tubbs).\u00a0 At the time, there were perhaps twenty black stunt men in the business and only a handful of them who were successful and able to obtain work regularly. One of them was Ernest Robinson who, with some other black stunt men, started the Black Stunt Man\u2019s Association. Robinson served as the organization\u2019s president for a decade and was Thomas&#8217; stunt man.<\/p>\n<p>When we interviewed Robinson for the book, he\u2019d been around the movie and TV business for some years and had learned to pay attention to synchronicity. In a soft almost reverential tone, he told us that when he worked on <em>Greased Lightning<\/em> as a double for actor Richard Pryor, he experienced a stunning &#8211; and tragic &#8211; synchro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did this stunt on a track that wasn&#8217;t supposed to hap\u00adpen. I was just supposed to be driving. The car I was in had little tires, skinny tires, it was a period-type car. Any\u00adway, so I was turning sideways to start skidding on two wheels and as I brought the car back down, another car went <em>under<\/em> mine. The front wheels of my car leaped off the track and the car fell fifty feet to the ground. It landed so that I could get out, and just after I did, it exploded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half an hour later, this car pulls up to the track and this guy walks toward me and I knew he had bad news. <em>He told me my father had died. I think he died at the same time I went over that fifty-foot drop.<\/em> I shoulda been dead, see. I should&#8217;ve had at least a scratch. But I had nothin&#8217;, not even a bump on the head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>++<\/p>\n<p>In synchros like this, I invariably wonder if the father gave his life for his son, in some strange arrangement that\u00a0 occurs within Indra&#8217;s net.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to update the book with an additional chapter at the end about where some of the people who acted and worked on <em>Vice<\/em> are now, more than 25 years later. In researching that, we discovered that in November 1986, less than a year after we\u00a0 had interviewed Robinson, he was badly injured on the <em>Vice<\/em> set when an explosion was detonated too soon. His legs were badly burned. The accident ended his stunt man career and he eventually moved on to\u00a0 acting and worked as a cameraman.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion sequence was included in an episode of <em>Vice <\/em>called <em>Baby Blue<\/em>. That photo at the top of the post is Robinson, caught in the fireball that ended his career as a stunt man.<\/p>\n<p>Another oddity in this story, if not a synchro&#8230;three years after Robinson served as stuntman for Richard Pryor and escaped a deadly fire, Pryor himself was enveloped in flames while making the movie Bustin&#8217; Loose. Pryor, however, wasn&#8217;t acting,; he was free-basing cocaine and drinking rum, an explosive combination in his case. No stuntman needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our books that we\u2019re bringing back into digital format is The Making of Miami Vice, a behind the scenes look at how the original \u00a0TV show was made. 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