Don Johnson random trivia

Together with "Miami Vice" (1984) co-star John Diehl were investors in the boxing career of Mark Breland. Made his professional debut in the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, in "Your Own Thing," a rock musical modeled after Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." Won a full drama scholarship to the University of Kansas. Made five pilots for NBC early in his career. All were rejected. Got his big break into stardom by starring in the controversial off-Broadway play, Fortune and Men's Eyes, which was directed and starred Sal Mineo. The play, which featured a realistic rape scene in a men's prison, generated plenty of press reviews due to the once taboo subject of homosexuality in the arts.