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Times Square movie poster, Thailand, 1981

21 November, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Movie posters in Thailand are an art form unto themselves. Google “Thai movie posters” and you will go down a rabbit hole you may take days to emerge from. Thai film distributors discard the authorized promotional materials and commission original painted montages in glorious colors. Some of

Filmstar, Vol 1 No. 3, Thailand, August 1981

9 November, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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.

JUKE, No. 302, February 7, 1981

16 October, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 6-7

4 October, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

Times Square UK Pressbook, 1980-81, pages 8-12

22 September, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

SONIDO – la revista musical, No. 56, June 1981

12 July, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The June 1981 issue of the Mexican pop music magazine Sonido contained on pages 38 and 39 an article credited to “Vicco,” but which seems to be exactly the same kind of AFD/RSO-written publicity published in English in similar magazines a year before. The article calls

Film Review Vol. 31 No. 2, February 1981

30 June, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

15 or 16 UK Promo Photos

6 June, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

As promised, here are all I have so far from the series of 8×10 black and white publicity stills from the UK, whose only true common denominator is that they have a small one- or two-digit number on a tiny inset square as part of the print. The typical still

UK Promo Photos 20 and 26, 1980-81

13 May, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Times Square 8 x 10″ publicity stills from this series continue to turn up. The first ones I found, I didn’t realize where they had come from, but the UK Press Kit’s caption sheet that matched up with some of the numbers on the photos solved the mystery. Their distinguishing

Times Square Program Book, Japan, June 1981, pages 20-24 (post 4 of 5)

26 March, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“Let’s get together at … Hippy Power” (?) Here at the end of the Japanese program book, we get the movie’s credits, an ad for the soundtrack album, and… the Times Square Top Ten? I can only imagine what’s being said, in relation to the film, about

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