Month: January 2018

  • Times Square movie poster, Japan, June 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Times Square opened in Japan on June 20, 1981. I don’t know if Robin and her mom made it there on their promotional tour. I do know that the Japanese publicity for the movie relied heavily on it being a hip young American movie, and illustrated that fact in a way that doesn’t translate…

  • Dolly No. 128, June 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“I love to sing but whether people like to hear me, is another matter.”       Times Square was a distant memory in the US in June 1981, when Dolly No. 128 came out in Australia. Alison Gardner’s interview with Robin covers little new ground, repeating Robin’s discovery on the steps of Brooklyn Tech…

  • “… a culture of ‘Rag-Dolls’…” 1981 Press Kit, Denmark

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThis was sold to me as a Press Kit, but it looks to me more like the AFD Campaign Pressbook in intent, as it has a list of available promotional materials on the back. Theater owners might have a use for that, the press wouldn’t. The Danish publicity for Times Square surprisingly abandoned the Cummins…