Why does nearly everyone living or dead on CBS-TV’s CSI:Miami look like the front-row hand shakers in the Tonight Show’s opening segment?
That is, younger than age 35.
Florida, especially Miami Beach, is the retirement capital of America with 19.2 percent of residents older than age 65. Yet not even one percent of the actors and crowd extras collects Social Security in the popular cop show.
Only Miami-Dade Police Dept. Det. Frank Tripp—sporting a suit, tie and good ol’ boy twang—is beyond the prized 18-35 audience demographic.
Shot with the same pastel lens filters used in Edward Scissorhands and Miami Vice, CSI:Miami features appealing characters:
Lt. Horatio Caine leads a hard-bodied cast--employing the pouting poses of male models in GQ Magazine and frequently gazing into sunsets and darkened crime scenes with oval sunglasses.
Especially attractive are myopic blonde/bullet babe/crime-scene investigator Calleigh DuQuesne with the Minnie Mouse voice and the African-American coroner/medical examiner/forensics pathologist Alexx Woods M.D., who whispers to corpses and flashes her cleavage.
Not bad for a hit show shot mainly in Southern California: a warehouse in El Segundo and the streets of Long Beach. Those Cubans and other hot Latino Floridians? They’re illegal aliens from Tijuana. (18 FEBRUARY 2007)
