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Mick Rock

1 August, 2020 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

On 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

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Film Review, Vol. 30 No. 10, October 1980

1 February, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“‘I’d sung in a choir when I was 12,’ Robin chirps…”           Assuming that any periodical dated October probably hit the stands in September, here’s a British magazine devoting an entire page to Robin, a month before Times Square’s premiere, and four months before it would

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From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack TIMES SQUARE (songbook)

24 December, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

  … is exactly what it sounds like, a squarebound book collecting the sheet music for all the songs appearing on the Times Square soundtrack album. This of course excludes “Dangerous Type” by The Cars, which although heard for quite a bit longer in the film than some of the

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Forward Into The Past

15 December, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Back issues of Screen International are surprisingly hard to come by. That’s why I’m posting this so far out of the chronological order I’ve been trying to adhere to… I didn’t have this until last week (as of this writing). And I don’t even have the entire issue; I just

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

Nicky Marotta in Limbo

8 December, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

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