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U.K. Publicity Still #… uh…
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThe black and white 8 x 10 stills released in England tend to have a lot of things in common, but the attributes are not absolute… Most of them, but not all, are full-bleed, with no borders. Many of them, but not all, have a caption pasted to their backs. Most, but not all, have…
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Kinejun No. 814, June 15, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Kinema Junpo (Kinejun, Motion Picture Times) devoted three pages to a promotional Times Square article in its June 15, 1981 issue, for the film’s Japanese opening on June 21. The text would appear to be the usual brief synopsis, with a list of some of the cast and crew. The small…
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Times Square chirashi, Japan, 1981 (2nd version)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Was it the Japanese distributor being one of those who went all-in on promoting Times Square, or was it par for the course in Japan for a movie like Times Square to get not one but two of these 2-sided handbills? Either way, here is a second chirashi. The first one was a replica…
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“Damn Dog” 12-inch single
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail You too might have had perhaps Robin’s only solo release, if you were a DJ… in 1981… in Belgium. The mind boggles at the series of meetings that must have occurred to result in the decision that this was a good idea. A 12-inch single of “Damn Dog”… but not a remix or extended…
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Times Square premiere ticket, 14 October 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThe Ziegfeld Theater was a Brutalist concrete cube in the middle of 54th Street. Inside, it was New York City’s last great movie palace. Times Square played there for two weeks starting October 17, 1980. The Tuesday before that, the movie had its world premiere there, followed by a gala party at Tavern on the…
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Fotogramas No. 1650, March 25, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Two months before Times Square opened in Spain, the film magazine Fotogramas ran the same kind of promotional article we’ve seen in Mexico, Thailand, and Germany. The article contains nothing new, but four of the six stills from the film never appeared anywhere else as far as I know, including an almost…
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Times Square promotional t-shirt, c. October 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Never sold at retail, as far as I can determine, this t-shirt would have been distributed to radio stations and theater owners to be given away as prizes along with free tickets and passes like the buttons were, or perhaps just as gifts for the DJs to make them a bit…
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Times Square trailer, U.S. version
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“Words cannot express the sheer unbelievability of this …” I’m nowhere near ready to post this. I wanted to have the best possible picture, and a post that had something a little more weighty to say about it… but it’s the 40th anniversary of Times Square’s general release today, and the 4K Blu-ray we…
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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 newspaper movie ad negatives, 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailExactly what it says on the label – four pieces of black-and-white film apparently used to print newspaper ads with, dating from October 1980 or shortly before. The seller of these items thought they were for printing posters, but the images are of such low quality, and black-and-white, that even though they don’t quite match…