↑ Long, Tim (ngày 26 tháng 2 năm 2008). "The Oscars: Where Is the Love for Philip Michael Thomas?"Vanity Fair. "Biggest story from this year's Oscars? To me, it's no contest: once again, the Academy failed to honor Philip Michael Thomas, the actor who played Detective Rico Tubbs on the 80s TV show Miami Vice.At the height of that show's success, Thomas took to wearing a gold medallion emblazoned with the letters "EGOT", which stood for "Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony." As Thomas told an interviewer in 1984, "Hopefully in the next five years I will win all of those awards."As of February 2008, Thomas has won none of those awards. He's never even been nominated for any of them. (To be fair, he did win a People's Choice Award, and was also nominated for two Golden Globes.) In fact, only twelve people in history have ever won all four — among them, Mike Nichols, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, and Marvin Hamlisch — and to my knowledge, none of them has ever trumpeted the achievement through gold jewelry.
