Times Square – Page 2 – Robin Johnson

Pammy’s Dancing Career Cut Short

9 January, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Despite recent appearances, this is a Robin Johnson site, not a Times Square site. But, for better or worse, there’s far more Times Square material out there than for the rest of her career combined. Plus, the vast majority of her fans (though not all) found her through Times Square.

Nicky Marotta in the Studio

1 January, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The WJAD studio, that is. This is an 8 x 10″ print with no border, with the little handwritten identification number 69-34A-4 added to the print in the lower right-hand corner. It was shot during the filming of the “Your Daughter Is One” performance, but doesn’t come close enough to

Aggie Doon

16 December, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“Words cannot express the sheer unbelievability of this performer and her material.” Here we have Robin on set at the Cleo Club, in the full Aggie Doon getup. Her hair is now slicked back, and the cheap Kent has been replaced with an expensive Rickenbacker 360 (funny how both guitars

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

Foxy Miss Pearl

30 November, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“I’m not dancing topless.” 12-year-old Trini Alvarado enacts 13-year-old Pamela Pearl making her debut as an exotic dancer, thankfully not topless. There are other images of this scene that were taken at the same time and differ only slightly, but I only have them published in magazines, on lobby

Pammy and Nicky Escape (again)

22 November, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Another 8×10 color print marked as Kodak paper from the 1970s-80s on the back. Normally when printing an 8×10 the image would be enlarged to fill the 8-inch dimension, cropping out about 2 inches of the longer dimension, but these photos are printed to show the entire exposure. I

Pammy and Nicky On the Run

15 November, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This is an 8×10 print, showing the full 35mm frame, of Nicky and Pammy running from the plainclothes detective, about to turn left and duck into the adult theater. The paper it’s printed on, as are most of the next batch of photos I’ll be posting, is

42nd & 6th

6 November, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

So: the girls are east of Times Square and headed for it. They’ve already traded clothes, and are on foot. In the film, this happens after they’ve been on the subway in those outfits, except they’re on their way to “the hideout” (as it’s called in the script).

On Location

29 October, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This is the only photo I’ve come across showing the production of Times Square. The assistant director’s full name is is Alan Hopkins. In the center are, of course, Robin and Trini Alvarado. All the way to the right, we can see half of director Allan Moyle. This is the

WJAD

23 October, 2014 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The originals of these first two images weren’t collected by me. They’re located on an old, apparently long-abandoned Angelfire site on which Mr. Charles E. Rowe, Jr. documented some of his career in radio, part of which was spent at the Bainbridge, Georgia station WJAD (now WGEX). When these call

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