Talk:Don Johnson/Archive 1

Untitled
I noticed that the album "Heartbeat" is stated as having been released in 1987. I have a copy of it, and the copyright is for "1986 CBS, Inc." Perhaps the video came out afterward, in '87, and this caused the mix-up.


 * ORIGINAL RESEARCH!!!! Wiki bazinga!!!! Copyright date and publication date are two totally different things.  Bazinga!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.193 (talk) 07:43, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Billion Dollar Mystery?
I distinctly remember Don Johnson being arrested on the Swiss border with over $1,000,000,000 dollars in his trunk. I never heard how it was resolved or why Miami Vice had a billion dollars. Anyone know?--The Grza 21:43, 5 November 2005 (UTC)


 * It was actually $8,000,000,000. Here's a link to a story about it:


 * http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/16/don.johnson.ap/


 * And according to this, he was cleared of any wrongdoing:


 * http://yahoo.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,11744,00.html


 * And here's an article about Don Johnson going from $8 billion to bankrupt:


 * http://yahoo.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13966,00.html


 * 216.113.168.141 21:33, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


 * added to article! Justforasecond 05:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

The two Yahoo links are now dead and should be removed. 145.253.108.22 08:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Political
"Supports the Democratic party."

Is this able to be verified? Ajwebb 21:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I noticed now that "Strongly" was added into this statement and the party changed from Democrat to Republican. Since this is the case, I added the Citation Needed tag. Ajwebb 00:34, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

On another note, I removed The DJXchange from the fansite list as it was no longer active. Ajwebb 22:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Brishes with the law?
Shouldn't bankrupcy be in this section? 145.253.108.22 08:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Aftershave
I can find no mention of this on the net anywhere. Unless a citation is provided, methinks this is nonsense. Apologies if proved wrong :) MrMarmite 11:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I am about to delete the aftershave mention, and also the other non-cited trivia like "hanging out with Clint" and naming his socks MrMarmite 20:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Driver's Ed video
I remember seeing a driving safety video with Johnson in it. I specifically remember him drawing attention to the fact that he never wore a seat belt on the show, but that, despite that, the kids watching it should.

Does anyone else remember this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JeremiahBritt (talk • contribs) 15:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC).

Ja, jeg husker det din kuksuger .--Brun drittklatt (talk) 15:45, 20 May 2008 (UTC) Struck thru, as vandalism. --Jerzy•t 15:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Timing in Griffith affair
One of the refs -- "A Wedding Belle Gives Miami Spice", late '87, mentions her only to say (in the context of an in-character wedding)
 * ... he has tied the knot three times—in two earlier quickie marriages and at the end of a long relationship with actress Melanie Griffith.

in which it should be noted that in context, "earlier" explicitly means pre-1981, and probably but not explicitly pre-1976. A previous editor inferred it meant "before meeting Griffith", but that would follow only from one assumption that the "long relationship" was exclusive (which he says it wasn't, even close to wedding day, plus another about when it became so. The other ref in the nbrhood -- "A Baby for Don and Melanie", early '89, says her "four-year adolescent romance with Johnson" began 16 years before (certainly not meaning 5844 days), which could mean on one hand '73, or on the other mid-Aug '72 to mid-Aug '73. As to the ages, a specific page in the 7-pg Time article previously cited says
 * At 22 he began a four-year liaison with 14-year-old Melanie Griffith, the daughter of Actress Tippi Hedren, with whom he had appeared in the movie The Harrad Experiment. (The same ages do appear in another ref.)

BTW, 2 comments need to be made abt our past language on this subject: I'm not sure the following is needed, but it confused me sufficiently that having gotten together, i'll leave it here for editors' reference in case need arises: She was born August 9, 1957, and thus turned 14 in Aug '71, 15 in Aug '72, 16 in Aug '73, and 18 (and engaged) in Aug '75. He was born December 15, 1949, and thus turned 22 in Dec '71, 23 in Dec. '72, and 24 in Dec. '73. 14 and 22 means the relationship started between Dec '71 (his 22nd) and Aug '72 (her 15th). Four years (which certainly does not mean 1431 days) from then can mean either any time in '75 (if it started in Dec.) and any time in '76 (if after Dec.), or, instead, in a 1-year period that may have started as early as June '75, and may have ended as late as Feb '77. --Jerzy•t 15:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) The essentially verbatim use of the Time text (omission of the phrase bracketed by its commas, replacing "he" by "Johnson", and omitting "had") is a copyvio.
 * 2) The omission of the phrase makes our version unsupported, and almost certainly false: it implies they met as actors on the film (and suggests they were in at least one scene together), whereas the original says about who he appeared in it with, only Hedren's name (she was apparently the female lead, and he in the leading male supporting role).  Griffith was indeed in the film (per IMDb), but as an uncredited extra, which that makes it unlikely that she did more, on the set, with her mother's colleague, than hang out on the fringes. She was almost certainly introduced to him as "my daughter" and a fan, and her "acting" among the extras probably did not make her even a colleague (as saying "with" intimates), let alone a professional peer.

Connection with the Allman Brothers Band
Didn't see anything in there. Have some cool photos of Johnson singing with them, although I'm unsure if anything from him ever turned up on a record or not. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 07:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

In Popular Culture
I noticed that the "In Popular Culture" section was removed in late March this year without a reason given for it's removal. I thought it was an interesting addition to the article. Would anyone care to discuss its possible re-addition or reasons why it shouldn't be re-added? Elnauron (talk) 15:17, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * "In popular culture" sections are discouraged. they become a dumping ground for (often unsourced) trivia. If something is actually relevent to a biography, it can normally be worked into the body of the article. Looking at what was there in January 2011, there 5 entries. Only 2 had sources and one of the sources was questionable as a RS. All were questionable in terms of relevance.Niteshift36 (talk) 16:30, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok. That's fair. I admit, I enjoy reading pop culture sections in articles, but as you mentioned, they can wind up being full of unsourced trivia which wouldn't reflect well on the article. Thanks for answering. Elnauron (talk) 21:48, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Age
Don Johnson is now 63 years old. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 14:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Deleted Legal Problem
I deleted this para which had led off "Legal Problems". No charges were laid, and it boils down to he said/she said. Violates Wikipedia norms BLP & that WP is not a newspaper.


 * In 2001, a 36-year-old woman accused an intoxicated Johnson of squeezing and bruising her wrist and lewdly propositioning her outside a restroom at San Francisco restaurant Mas Sake, and claimed while still firmly squeezing her wrist he began drunkenly singing "Heartbeat". The woman's friends made their way across the restaurant to confront Johnson as he continued to sing but said when he saw them he let go of her and quickly fled out the back door. Johnson said he was considering buying an advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle to state his side of the story, but later decided to post the notices on his website. Due to insufficient evidence, no charges were filed.

Bellagio99 (talk) 19:05, 9 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Agree.--Tenebrae (talk) 21:21, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Birth Name
His birth name is Donald Wayne Johnson, not Donnie Wayne Johnson. He was known as "Donnie Wayne" as a child, which is where the confusion arises. Check the many print biographies that were published in the 1980s, for ref, or http://www.biography.com/people/don-johnson-9542537. Not one single bio book refers to his birth name being Donnie. HarveyGizmo (talk) 13:07, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

link rot
Reference #7 is no longer on the web. 71.163.117.143 (talk) 01:32, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Seems like no one gives a damn.


 * 1) 7 is still a dead link. "Stanley Sweetheart Seeks in Monstrous Society". Tri-City Herald. Associated Press. June 19, 1970. Retrieved December 19, 2012.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.2.130.215 (talk) 05:38, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Johnson and Mary-Louise Parker
Why does the article have a picture of Johnson and Mary-Louise Parker at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in the Relationships and Family section, but there is nothing in the article about Johnson having a relationship? Did they have one or did they just do a film together? If they didn't have a relationship of any significance, then it would seem more appropriate to move this picture elsewhere or simply delete it. Tom Miller (talk) 04:50, 1 December 2019 (UTC)