Month: July 2017

  • TIMES SQUARE IS MUSIC OF THE STREETS

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail   WHAT: A yellow-orange, red, and black sticker, 2ΒΌ inches in diameter, with text reading “Times Square is music of the streets.” WHERE: Australia. The tag line on the Australian posters was “Times Square is the music of the streets.” The sticker omits the first “the.” Also, where the phrase is in a graffiti-like…

  • Times Square Australian Daybill

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail   According to IMDb, Times Square opened in Australia on February 6, 1981. Robin and her mother went there to continue RSO/EMI’s publicity tour, and I’m pretty sure she made a brief but strong impression on Australian television discussing her discovery and career-to-come. As this was just before the home consumer video recording market…

  • Movie 81 No. 2, February 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail “There’s a hot new talent, Robin Johnson in Robert Stigwood’s Times Square…”   Times Square was still in theaters in London when the February Movie 81 came out in Australia and editor John Fraser made the above announcement.   The two-page spread later in the issue is comprised of “An Appraisal by Terry O’Brien,”…