Month: May 2016

  • Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 47 No. 562, November 1980

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Pictures, but not of Robin. What a cheap post.   Robin is mentioned quite a bit though in Gilbert Adair’s surprisingly positive and intellectual review, about which Karen (DefeatedandGifted) has written a much more incisive piece than I could ever hope to. So I suggest you just click that link and read it.  …

  • Gene Siskel Times Square review, November 19 1980

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailNo pictures this time. Sorry. I’ll make it up to you eventually. Gene Siskel reviewed Times Square on page 6 of Section 3 of the November 19 Chicago Tribune. He gave it two stars, and those two stars were Robin Johnson and Trini Alvarado. No, he didn’t literally say that, but his review was typical…

  • Soundtrack Ad, Melody Maker, November 15, 1980

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“AFTER ALL THE MOVIE ALBUMS RELEASED THIS YEAR COMES THE DEFINITIVE ROCK SOUNDTRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING ROBERT STIGWOOD FILM ‘TIMES SQUARE’”         Even as Times Square was opening and closing in the United States, the mighty RSO promotion machine was hard at work in the United Kingdom, as this full-page ad for…

  • New York Magazine, Vol. 13 No. 43, November 3, 1980

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“Trini Alvarado and Robin Johnson, the teenage stars of Times Square, show us their offscreen style.” This article is another of the few things I collected at the time of the movie, since there was (and still is) no official merchandise, and none of the surplus publicity materials had yet filtered out to the public……