Month: June 2018

  • 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…

  • Robin and Trini “Bandphotos”, UK 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailMore recently-turned-up Times Square publicity from England. Exactly how these fit in with the rest of it, I’m not sure. I’m guessing they were relatively early UK publicity, since the photos still have the American numbers on them. Perhaps before their own publicity machine got going, EMI contracted with Alan Band to send out photos…

  • 15 or 16 UK Promo Photos

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailAs 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 from the US has a…