#sonny burnett

[alverrann]

My last post for Miami Vice Day will be a self-indulgent AU from a monster (me) who wanted more h/c and angst from the Burnett arc.

What if instead of recognizing (somewhat) and chasing Tubbs from the lighthouse at the beginning of Redemption in Blood Part 2, Burnett says Tubbs' name and then handcuffs him to the stair railing? What if Burnett plans on coming back later after getting rid of his men, to find out just who Tubbs is and why he remembers him?

Here's a bit of that angst:

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Okay, Cooper." Sonny tossed the key to the handcuffs. "Get up, we're goin' for a walk."

Cooper caught it in his free hand, expression unreadable. He looked from Sonny to the gun pointed at him, seeming to understand that he wasn't going to escape. To some extent, Burnett admired the cool calm with which the man unchained himself from the stair railing, rubbing his wrist as he stood. 

"All right. Walk." Burnett kept his distance, taking no chances. 

Handcuffs in one hand and key in the other, the cop walked. Sonny stayed behind him, following till they were out of the lighthouse. Cooper paused after exiting, turning to look back with a slightly furrowed brow. "You came alone." 

"I didn't need to bring anyone else." Burnett said. "Get on the ground - face down. Drop the key." 

Cooper knelt slowly, setting the key down beside him, "Did you come to kill me?" 

"On the ground." Sonny repeated. "Hands behind your back." 

"This isn't typical dealer behavior, ya'know?" Cooper said as he complied. "You gonna execute me? Throw me into the ocean? Or do you remember?" 

Sonny didn't respond verbally, but dug his knee into the other man's back when he used the handcuffs to restrain him, pocketing the key again.

Now he stood up and back, gun pointing again. "You and I are gonna have a chat, cop. Get up." Cooper - with some difficulty - pushed himself to his knees, then stood up. Burnett strapped his gun away, putting a hand on Cooper's back to shove him towards the car. 

"What are we gonna chat about?" Cooper asked, sounding almost confrontational, or even accusing. "The explosion? The killings? The fact that you've been missing for six months?" 

Burnett opened the passenger door, shoving the cop in before leaning down - inches from his face. "I'm gonna be askin' the questions, pal." He closed the door, cutting off whatever response the man might have given. 

When he opened the driver's side to get in, Cooper's expression had changed, looking melancholic rather than belligerent. "You really don't remember me." 

"Just your real name, Ricardo Tubbs." Sonny started the car. "But you're gonna tell me what I'm missin'. You're gonna tell me who you are." 

There was a long silence as he pulled out, driving away from the lighthouse, but not towards home. Finally, Cooper said, "Rico." 

"What?" Sonny glanced over, but the man was looking forward, face expressionless again. 

"You always called me Rico." 

Burnett wasn't sure he wanted to respond to that, but he had questions that he needed answered. Questions whose answers might change his whole life. "Were we close?" 

"Yeah." Cooper breathed. "You could say that." 

"I was a cop." He hadn't said it out loud since the memories had started stirring, and the words tasted like acid on his tongue.

"And what are you now?" Cooper asked. 

The question cut straight to the heart of Sonny's problem, and he pulled the car to an abrupt stop, looking straight at the other man. This man who haunted his dreams along with a dozen other phantoms from his past - nameless and forgotten.

But this man was no phantom. Not anymore. 

"I'm not here to play games, Cooper." The words came out in a rushed growl, but Cooper didn't flinch. Cliff might have flinched. Celeste would have flinched. Burnett almost never lost his temper - not like this - so what was it about this man that made him so angry?

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And there's you go! I hope you all had a fantastic Miami Vice Day, and now I'll be done spamming posts, lol.

It's 11:54pm here, and I'm cuttin' it close. So that's all, folks!

[instinctprison777]

Miami Vice Redemption in Blood S05/E02

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Joining Cher on “The Sonny and Cher Show” are Flip Wilson as Geraldine, Tina Turner and Kate Smith, Raquel Welch, and Carol Burnett.

[doesnotloveyou]

Miami Vice, S01E17 - Rites of Passage

that time when Sonny creeped himself out as Burnett

[thena0315]

SVU Season 24 Title Cast Opening

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Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, 1935 – March 7, 2024) Singer, comedian and actor, best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé, billed as "Steve and Eydie", and for his performance as Maury Sline, the manager and friend of the main characters in The Blues Brothers. Steve and Eydie first appeared together as regulars on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in 1954 and continued performing as a duo until Gormé's retirement in 2009

When he was 18 years old, Lawrence was hired by Steve Allen to be one of the singers on Allen's local New York City late night show on WNBC-TV in 1953, along with Eydie Gormé and Andy Williams. When the show got picked up by NBC to be seen on the national network, becoming The Tonight Show, Lawrence, Gormé and Williams stayed on until the program's end in 1957.

Primarily a singer Lawrence was also an actor, appearing in guest roles on television shows in every decade since the 1950s. After getting his start with Steve Allen's late night show, he was seen in programs such as The Danny Kaye Show; The Judy Garland Show; The Julie Andrews Hour; Night Gallery; The Flip Wilson Show; Police Story; Murder, She Wrote; and CSI.

Lawrence and Gormé starred in the 1958 summer replacement series on NBC, The Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé Show. Lawrence made many appearances on The Carol Burnett Show (1967–78), with and without Eydie. The Steve Lawrence Show, with supporting actor Charles Nelson Reilly, ran for 13 weeks in 1965, a variety show that was one of the last CBS television shows to only air in black and white. Lawrence also served as a panelist on What's My Line? (1950–67).

Lawrence played Mark McCormick's father, Sonny Daye, in two episodes of Hardcastle and McCormick. He appeared on The Nanny several times - first as himself in season 2, episode 14, and then as the much-talked about, but never really seen, Morty Fine, father of Fran Fine in a few of the final episodes of the show. In 2011, he portrayed Jack, a wealthy love interest of Betty White's character, Elka Ostrovsky, on Hot in Cleveland. In 2014, he guest-starred in an episode of Two and a Half Men on CBS, and sang the theme song to the parody miniseries The Spoils of Babylon. (Wikipedia)

IMDb Listing

[yodeleyewho]

idk there’s something about the progression of sonny and rico’s relationship going from partner (work related) -> friends -> partners (not exactly work related) that gets me. In “Evan” rico says during their argument “wanna drop the friendship and just be partners??”, then next season “French Twist” and the situation with danielle gets him to say “you’re messing with my best friend and I don’t like that”, then seasons later after the burnett stuff was coming to a close, rico says to sonny in the interrogation room, “we were friends, more than that — partners..”

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

CAROL BURNETT

CAROL BURNETT

26 April 1933, aged 90

            Carol Burnett is an American comedian, singer and actress who has worked on both stage and screen. She had her own TV program The Carol Burnett Show 1967–1978. Burnett is also best known for playing Miss Hannigan (Miss Agatha ‘Aggy’ Hannigan) in the film Annie (1982). The role was supposed to go to Bette Midler, and as much as we admire Midler; we are fortunate that Burnett gained the role because it is one of her best performances. Burnett has also appeared in: Toy Story 4 (2019), The Twilight Zone (1963), Calamity Jane (1963), The Lucy Show (1966-67), Get Smart (1967), here’s Lucy (1969-71), Sesame Street (1969-71, 74), The Sonny & Cher Show (1976), The Muppet Show (1980), The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1991), Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2021) & Trolls: Holiday in Harmony (2021).

            Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas, her mother was a publicity writer for movie studios and her father was a movie theatre director. She moved to an impoverished area of Hollywood to live with her grandmother who was a trained musician and took her to the movies which influenced her career. After school graduation she planned to study journalism but instead decided to go with arts and English instead, as she wanted to become a playwright. She started taking acting courses and performing in university productions which led to her career in acting, comedy, and singing.  

            Burnett has been married three times and has three children. Her daughter Carrie sadly died in 2002 aged 38 from pneumonia as a complication of lung and brain cancer.

She was close friends with Lucille Ball, Julie Andrews and Betty White. Burnett has written three memoirs, This Time Together (2010), Carrie and Me (2014) and In Such Good Company (2016).

#carolburnett #annie1982 #misshannigan

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Put On Your Raincoats | Miami Spice II (Svetlana, 1988)

In the Season 4 Miami Vice episode "Baseballs of Death", when Vice goes after a Chilean police chief suspected of murder and weapons trafficking but is met with resistance from the State Department, Switek figures out they can eavesdrop on his car phone with radios, thereby circumventing the need for a warrant. In Miami Spice II, the cops do not have the need for such tech savvy, as they are able to surveil suspects by standing outside their windows and watching them in plain view. Sometimes, simpler is better.

Anyway, this hangs together better than the first one as a pornographic riff on Vice as it puts more effort into the plot, throws in a climactic boat chase (which is a little low energy, but I appreciate the effort), and has a much better villain in John Leslie, who has enough texture in his presence that he probably could have made a good guest star in the actual series. He plays a drug lord named Sonny, with a crooked cop played by Stacey Donovan in his employ, two things which lead one to believe the filmmakers wanted to gesture towards the Burnett arc without risking copyright infringement. Anyway, Leslie's whole thing is that he's supposed to be perverted, but what we see of his perversions consists entirely of telling his subordinates to have sex with each other. In real life, that would get you a call from HR, but in a porno, eh, I've seen more perverted. And lest you forget what this is supposed to resemble, Amber Lynn chimes in with a helpful reminder. "Now THAT's a Miami Vice cop. Spicy."

I'm obviously a sucker for anything Vice-adjacent, so I appreciated that they even had a guy dress like Crockett. The attention to wardrobe accuracy does not translate to the main characters. Amber Lynn for some reason wears a gold jumpsuit, while Danielle brings out a zebra print in one scene. Sheri St. Clair does not have any particularly interesting wardrobe, but she does have some line readings that bring to mind Switek, something that will either do a lot for you or ruin the movie for you entirely.

Pornographically speaking, I cannot fault any of the scenes, but the clear highlight is the one at the end where Danielle gets gangbanged by four bodybuilders as a reward for solving the case. (I must admire the esprit de corps in this unit, as I suspect most people would not set up gangbangs for their coworkers.) It's not just the activity featured, but the eerie horror movie music that starts things off, as well as the fog machine and the black background, so there's a bit of that Season 5 visual darkness here for those who've made it far enough into the series. And on a less spicy note, there's a sex scene that pans to a robot beside the bed, although I regret to inform you that the characters do NOT have sex with the robot.

[doesnotloveyou]

Definitely Miami

already posted the AO3 link to this, but i'm so silly I forgot I can just post the whole thing

Warnings: Teen rating for suggestive content

Length: Flashfic/ficlet/drabble

Summary:

Sonny reflects on his past romances while trying not to make a huge mistake with a certain French bombshell.

Sonny's love life had felt like falling down stairs for a long time now. Each time he hit another step he swore he'd find his balance and stop before he hit the bottom, that the next step would be the last. Except the staircase was much steeper than he'd expected, and Burnett attracted gravity like a lead weight.

Caroline, his best love, mother to his amazing little boy who was growing bigger every day, broke his heart by using her head. She wanted out and he couldn't blame her. The job was more home to him than she was. His ex-wife and his boy had hugged him goodbye and left for better things.

Gina, his girl Friday, got her heart crushed by some jackass who wined and dined her before taking on another chick without so much as an "oops, sorry.” She definitely still loved him, but that wound was festering and neither of them wanted to look at it. He didn't even know why he'd done it, but he knew he didn’t deserve to be taken back.

Brenda, the 'other woman,' the one who was out of his league. The one who somehow thought she could succeed where Caroline had cut her losses. A pretty fantasy to wake up to but one that nearly cost him his real partner. She was never meant to be.

Margaret was the first sign that the staircase was steeper than imagined. New York City was bewildering enough without some chic blonde in a penthouse spinning him like a top. Even once the curtain had fallen she still tried to manipulate him back into her bed. He'd prefer to forget about Margaret sooner than later.

Now Callie. Ice cube to wipe her sweat, Callie. Kept him up thinking about her during a heatwave, Callie. How she twisted him around one manicured finger before running that hand up her leg. She came on too hard, turned him off; exuding pure sex was not a look he desired. But it sure as hell clung to his brain like a parasite.

The tortured love angle tugged viciously at his heart strings. He was in this job to protect people like her, but people like her were starting to go too far. His head was slamming the brakes while his heart floored it; it's a ripoff, but what if it isn't, trust your gut, she looks so scared, she could have left him by now, you know it's never that simple.

Sonny felt guilty for how bad he wanted it to be real. Because if it were real then Callie was really in an abusive relationship. Her tears, her fear, her pain. All of it would have to be real and he'd currently be hunting down the animal that terrorized her. Yet, the stink of a rotten deal was all over that woman, and here he was following it like a starving dog. 

During the four hours he devoted to sleep, drenched in summer sweat and wearing as little as possible, Sonny would bear down on the bunched up blanket and pillows to take the edge off. Callie was either a victim or a snake, and either way he shouldn't touch her.

At the end of each night though, his bed was empty, his heart full, and he wasn't getting any younger.

In the safehouse, Callie parted open her bathrobe and he fell with her into the bed. The trouble then was knowing exactly where to start. She was an unguarded sports car, top down, keys in the ignition, tank full, engine purring, upholstery gleaming. He was dressed as a criminal, talking like one, thinking like one. There was compassion in his heart and a full-bodied woman in his arms. No one knew where they were, and she wanted the touch of a kind man so desperately she was practically forcing herself on him. It was all so perfect. 

Out of left field the bickering between his head and heart was overruled. His conscience got him out of that bed. He pulled his clothes back together. He walked away.

[thena0315]

New SVU Title Opening Cast

24x10 - Forward

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~More Ttte Design~

~The Diesels~

❤️Pip and Emma, Derek, Den, Dart, Bear, Sydney, Arry, Bert❤️

~The Skarloey Railway~

🧡Skarloey, Rheneas, Sir Handel, Peter Sam, Rusty, Duncan, Duke, Smudger, Freddy, Mighty Mac, Luke, Nancy🧡

~The Bluebell Railway~

💛Stepney💛

~The Miniature Engines~

💚Mike, Rex, Bert, Jock💚

~Non-Rail Vehicles~

💙Madge, Bertie, Caroline, Bulgy, Elizabeth, Trevor, Buster, George, Jeremy, Thumper💙

~The Cranes~

💜Cranky, Carly Harvey, Rocky💜

~The Big Engines~

🩷Hank, Neville, Murdoch, Hiro, Molly, Connor and Caitlin, Flying Scotsman, City of Turo, Duchess of Hamilton🩷

~Sodor Search and Rescue Team~

❤️Flynn, Belle, Harold, Rocky❤️

~Miscellaneous~

🧡Charlie, Ryan, Arthur Nia, Kana Philip, Scruffy, The Spiteful Breakvan, Flora, Stanley, Aurelia, Jinty and Pug, Neil, Thomas' Special Coach🧡

~The Steelworks Engines~

💛Frankie, Hurricane, Lexi and Theo, Merlin💛

~The Misty Island Hillbillies~

💚Bash and Dash, Ferdinand💚

~The China Clay Company~

💙Bill and Ben, Timothy, Marion💙

~The Steamworks~

💜Victor and Kevin💜

~Sodor Trash Team~

🩷Scruff and Whiff🩷

~The Ulfstead Railway~

❤️Millie, Glynn, Stephen❤️

~Shining Time Station~

🧡Burnett Stone, Mr. Conductor (Alec Baldwin, Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Junior) Lilly, Patch, Billy Two-feathers, Stacy Jones, PT.Boomer🧡

~Marvellous Machinery~

💛Ruth, Cleo💛

~The Technology Thief’s~

💚Sonny, Baz and Bernie💚

~The Horrors of Hawin Lake~

💙Dane/1020, Hawin💙

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Swatch History Research - Beading 🪡✨

Beading goes back as far as 5000 years ago, and it is often regarding as “mankind’s first indulgent luxury, fashioned from seashells, stones, nuts, seeds and carved wood”

Throughout the Middle Ages beadwork was used over embroidery as embellishment. In the Renaissance Era and Elizabethan England it was often used to embellished clothes, purses, jewellery boxes, and small pictures. Embroidery has made its way into different cultures and become a really significant cultural and status symbol.

An example of a designer that uses beading would be Bob Mackie. He was born in the States in Southern California and was most renowned for designing Cher’s many iconic looks. There is a major element of Hollywood glamour in his work, as it was made to be shown on a tv screen or used in a performance. After fitting his pattern, mackie would draw directly onto the figure to achieve the desired intricacy and placement on the beads. Mackie was introduced to Cher after a guest appearance on the Burnett show, and afterwards she asked him to create her costumes for “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour”. Many iconic looks were designed for her featuring lots of embellishment and beading.

An example of cultural beading would be from the Indigenous highlands of Vietnam. Recently a drag queen competing on the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars- Plastique Tiara, featured this kind of beading as part of her Vietnamese heritage in her promo look for the Show.

https://www.costumedesignersguild.com/design_details/focus-on-beading/

https://www.instagram.com/plastiquetiara?igsh=NDZ1N2Yyd2V2dm0w