Bits and Pieces

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Take note: this post is mostly just me killing some time. It’s not really connected to Robin, and only technically connected to Times Square. So, here are a few buttons I’ve managed to glom onto. They’re not the actual ones used on Nicky’s jacket, but they were all real pins,

Times Square Blue

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This is the last of the… well, what should I call them? The objects that have no publication information printed on them, or aren’t contained in some other package (although some of them turn up again later that way). Although… there’s at least one more image that fits that definition

Aggie Doon

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“Words cannot express the sheer unbelievability of this performer and her material.” Here we have Robin on set at the Cleo Club, in the full Aggie Doon getup. Her hair is now slicked back, and the cheap Kent has been replaced with an expensive Rickenbacker 360 (funny how both guitars

Robin Johnson as Nicky Marotta, 1980 B&W publicity photograph by Mick Rock

Nicky Marotta in Limbo

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Black limbo, that is. This photo isn’t one of the “Kodak paper” series, but I’m going through these photos in the order they’d appear in the film (since I don’t know the order in which they were shot), and this one comes next. Except… You know how I’ve been saying

Nicky Marotta, 1980

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And this, of course, is the look they settled on for Nicky, ultimately using this photo on nearly all the American publicity materials. As this is the outfit she wears when the girls escape from the hospital, it was likely taken near the end of production, so the shaggy hair