Robin Johnson – Page 5 – The Life and Career of the Actress Robin Johnson

October 1981: Times Square… Great TV Entertainment…?

27 December, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

According to the October 1981 issue of Great TV Entertainment, the official schedule for Showtime and The Movie Channel, Times Square was shown six times on The Movie Channel, on October 25, 27, and 31. I could have sworn it was shown many times more than that; the showings

Times Square Hits US Cable TV, October 1981

15 December, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

A year after its brief run in theaters, Times Square made it to HBO, and I watched it every single time it ran. This was before my family had a VCR, but my dad had access to a Sony Porta-Pak open-reel video recorder, and I recorded the movie across

Filmstar, Vol. 1 No. 6, Thailand, October 1981

3 December, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I would think that by October of 1981, a year after its initial release in New York, and two or three months after its Thai release, Times Square would have long since closed in Thailand and become a distant memory. But that didn’t stop Filmstar magazine

Times Square movie poster, Thailand, 1981

21 November, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Movie posters in Thailand are an art form unto themselves. Google “Thai movie posters” and you will go down a rabbit hole you may take days to emerge from. Thai film distributors discard the authorized promotional materials and commission original painted montages in glorious colors. Some of

Filmstar, Vol 1 No. 3, Thailand, August 1981

9 November, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

By August 1981, Robin might already have figured out that neither she nor Andy Gibb were going to get a call telling them when to report to the Grease 2 set. Most of the world had already forgotten about Times Square. But it wasn’t quite over yet.

More stills from the UK series

28 October, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I nearly passed over this lot of five black and white stills, except it had one photo I’d never seen. Rather than try to haggle for just the one photo, I bought the lot, and I’m glad I did, because they’re all from the UK series, three of them

JUKE, No. 302, February 7, 1981

16 October, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The soundtrack album cover image on the cover of Australia’s Juke no. 302 is the only Robin content in the issue, but it’s still a remarkable piece of Times Square history. In Melbourne at least, PolyGram Records promoted the heck out of the film’s premiere for an entire weekend, and

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 6-7

4 October, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This is the center spread of the glossy UK pressbook for Times Square. Of the seven images circling the European logo, four are cropped from photos used on UK lobby cards (clockwise from top left, that would be One, Two, Five, and Seven). Of the three remaining: Four is a

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 8-12

22 September, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The second half of the US pressbook was entirely made up of variations of the movie poster for different sized newspaper ads. The UK version relegates the available promotional materials to the last three pages, and devotes pages 8, 9, and 10 to reprinting biographical articles from the

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 1-5

10 September, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I’d given up all hope of ever finding one of these when, bam, two of them turn up. It’s the EMI version of the pressbook issued in the USA by AFD. It’s shorter in page count, but larger in size, and printed in color on heavier, glossier paper. It doesn’t