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A face of the 80’s
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Most of the Times Square posters have some identifying information on them — a copyright notice, the film’s local distributor, a code number — but not this one, so we have to go on what’s on it. The logo and the artwork are from the UK movie poster, which was also (the artwork at…
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Mick Rock
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailOn June 1, 2016, Mick Rock did a signing for the “unlimited” edition of his book, The Rise of David Bowie, at Taschen in New York City, and I went. Of course I got an autographed book, but I also took the opportunity to ask him about the photos of Robin I’ve been theorizing he…
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tl;dr: Broken image links…?
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailI don’t think anyone actually reads these, but just in case… As I may have mentioned before, I’ve filled up all the storage space on this account with pictures. Actually, there seems to a periodic fluctuation between being slightly over my allotted quota and being at about 80%; I don’t know what accounts for that.…
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Star of Pacific, Thailand, September 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Times Square opened in Thailand in August 1981, but here’s a Thai magazine celebrating Robin in September. This was followed by Filmstar Vol. 1 No. 6 that featured a Thai translation of an interview with Robin that had appeared in Seventeen Magazine in October 1980. Did Times Square play in Thailand for three months?…
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Robin Johnson, signing autographs, late 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail “I’m convinced that if I do this long enough, I’ll have to start laying low in public, to endure the intrusion of strangers asking for autographs. I deeply admire Bette Midler, but I would never dare to ask her for an autograph; I wouldn’t bother her with nonsense like that.” — Robin…
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Times Square UK Lobby Cards, 1st Set (post 4 of 4)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The final cards from the first set of UK lobby cards. These are the last of the items I have that were released contemporaneously with Times Square’s original release, so I’m going to take a bit of a break after this before continuing with the rest of Robin’s brief acting career. It seems right…
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New Times Square digital transfer
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailKino Lorber announced yesterday a new 4K digitization of Times Square for release in 2020. Rumors of an impending blu-ray release have abounded for years; this time, I believe it. Coming 2020!Brand New 4K Master! Times Square (1980) Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado & Robin Johnson – Featuring Hit Songs by The Cure, Robin Gibb, Joe…
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Times Square UK Lobby Cards, 1st Set (post 3 of 4)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Cards 9 through 12 from what I believe to be the first of two sets of Times Square lobby cards distributed in the UK in late 1980 or early 1981: David Pearl watching his daughter practice dance moves at the strip club was reproduced on the first Yugoslavian lobby card poster. …
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Times Square UK Lobby Cards, 1st Set (post 2 of 4)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Cards 5 through 8 from what I believe to be the first of two sets of Times Square lobby cards distributed in the UK in late 1980 or early 1981: Nicky joining in as Pammy dances and Roberto (Miguel Pinero) looks on bemusedly, was in the other set of UK lobby cards, on…
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Times Square UK Lobby Cards, 1st Set (post 1 of 4)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail I first encountered lobby cards from this series several years ago in the collection of DefeatedandGifted, and I assumed they were Australian, partly because that’s where she was, and because they used the American form of the logo which was used on the Australian movie poster while listing EMI as the distributor. The movie…