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Bravo, No. 21, Germany, May 19, 1982
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailMay 1982, and Times Square was about to have its final premiere, in West Germany. Why did it take this long, over a year and a half after its initial premiere, and a year after the rest of Europe had seen it? I have no idea. But someone still had hope for the movie, as…
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Times Square Hits US Cable TV, October 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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 four reels, during four broadcasts,…
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Filmstar, Vol. 1 No. 6, Thailand, October 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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 from running an article…
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Filmstar, Vol 1 No. 3, Thailand, August 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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. Thailand’s Filmstar magazine…
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More stills from the UK series
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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 were new numbers, and…
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JUKE, No. 302, February 7, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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 the magazine gave away…
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Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 6-7
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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 more complete version of…
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Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 8-12
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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 US Press Material folder.…
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Guerreras de Nueva York (Times Square lobby card, Mexico, 1981)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Mexico’s Guerreras de Nueva York got at least one lobby card, too, and here it is, with the same photo used on two items in Karen Dean’s (DefeatedandGifted’s) collection: one of three lobby cards from somewhere that used the US logo, but had EMI as the film’s distributor; and a pull-out poster from an…
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Film Review Vol. 31 No. 2, February 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Times Square probably hadn’t had its January 15th opening yet when the February issue of Film Review came out. Unlike the article in the previous month’s issue, this isn’t a review at all, but a promotional summary of the film, with the exception of the backhanded compliment that most of the movie’s appeal is…