Robin Johnson

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

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“‘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 open in the UK.  …

  • “I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailBut, I will anyway, ’cause that’s how I roll. The first is a not-quite 1 1/2 inch button with the Times Square logo on a black background. As far as I know these were never for sale, and were most likely given to radio stations and theater owners to give out as publicity. I know…

  • Forward Into The Past

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailBack 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 have the upper left corner…

  • Times Square – DJ Copy

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail… was the title of the soundtrack sampler released in Japan. The picture sleeve is very thin paper, practically newsprint. The image is one used in the film strip on the UK soundtrack sampler. Unfortunately, I cannot read Japanese, and Google Translate does a very bad job of translating Japanese; I also have little confidence…

  • TIMES SQUARE Trailer

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail… was, for some reason, the title of the promotional soundtrack sampler in the UK. It’s a much more attractive package than the US sampler, with a strip of stills across the top emphasizing that yes, there’s a movie involved, as opposed to the US white sleeve that seemed to want to distance the soundtrack…

  • “Special Preview of Selected Cuts”

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThis 6-track, white-labelled, white-sleeved record was used by RSO to promote the Times Square soundtrack in the U.S. As there was no art, it may be the most boring promotional item released. It would have been distributed to radio stations, and copies were later handed out at the film’s premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater, or…

  • Soundtrack Promotional Poster OP-200

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“O” is for “oversized,” I assume. This image is the same size as the image of the last poster, but trust me, the actual poster is double the size — just as tall and twice as wide. At four feet wide, it may be the largest poster in my collection; the UK “Quad” movie poster…

  • Original Soundtrack Album Cover Promo Display

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThis was the very first item of Times Square memorabilia I ever got (although, like the double-sided poster, not this specific copy of it). I saw the film twice at the Quakerbridge Mall, which had two record stores in it (later there were three, if you can imagine such a thing!). The one on the…

  • AFD Campaign Pressbook (pages 7-20)

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThe remaining 14 pages of the AFD Campaign Pressbook consist of the poster reconfigured to fit every imaginable size of newspaper movie advertisement. I’m not posting all of them (because webspace is neither infinite nor free), just enough to give you an idea. The back cover gives a contact at AFD where you can get…

  • AFD Campaign Pressbook (pages 5 & 6)

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“TIMES SQUARE. It’s a movie. It’s a musical. It’s a way of life.”   The photos on Page 6 of the AFD Campaign Pressbook are a cropped version of TS-104-17A/7, and TS-28-28/7. There, now that’s out of the way… Pages 5 and 6 breathlessly present all sorts of fantastic ideas for events you can host…