Justina Johnson

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April 16, 1949 – August 16, 2018 Justina Johnson graduated Syracuse University with a BA in History and Library Science. Since 1979 she’d worked as a computer programmer. She was Robin Johnson’s aunt, her father’s little sister. Only 15 years older than Robin, their early relationship was often more like

Times Square lobby cards, Germany, 1982 (post 5 of 5)

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The last three German lobby cards.   Number 13 looks over Nicky’s shoulder down to the sparse crowd on 42nd Street. This shot occurs as the crowd is assembling when they first spot her, though; it grows to at least five times this size. Still not enough to fill the

Times Square lobby cards, Germany, 1982 (post 4 of 5)

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    Yet another three German lobby cards.       The first, number 10 by my count, was a UK lobby card, and had been previously published in Film Review Vol. 31 No. 1 and Movie 81 No. 2, and on the back of the Japanese promo flyer.  

Times Square lobby cards, Germany, 1982 (post 3 of 5)

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        Another three German lobby cards.         The image on card #7 previously appeared in Joepie #365.               Nicky rising from her seat to dance with Pammy as Roberto looks on was previously a British lobby card, and

Times Square lobby cards, Germany, 1982 (post 2 of 5)

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  Three more German lobby cards.   The shot of Johnny at the mic was previously a British lobby card, and had been published in Movie 81 No. 2 in February 1981. It would appear to have been taken at the same time as the shot that appeared in the

Times Square lobby cards, Germany, 1982 (post 1 of 5)

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Germany may have gotten Times Square last, but they got a set of 15 lobby cards to promote it with. At least, 15 that I’ve found, over several years, in two batches of 14 that each had one different card in them. While 15 sounds like a nice round number,

Times Square movie poster, Germany, 1982

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Times Square opened in West Germany on May 21, 1982. The poster reproduced the painting by Cummins that had graced the other European posters, although with a different pair of photos than the British, Spanish, and Yugoslavian posters, and the addition of a paragraph of ad copy that seems to

Cinema, Vol. 49 No. 6, Germany, June 1982

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My apologies to those scandalized by the cover of Germany’s Cinema magazine from June 1982. It might get one banned from Facebook and Tumblr, but the Germans were apparently not so easily embarrassed thirty-six years ago as we are now. But whatever you may think of the cover, the important

Times Square movie poster, Australia, February 1981

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      The Australian movie poster featured the glorious Mick Rock photo of Robin that graced the earliest piece of Times Square advertising, which is possibly my favorite image used to promote the movie. Once I’d found this I was looking forward to having it framed, but unfortunately not

Times Square newspaper movie ad negatives, 1980

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Exactly what it says on the label – four pieces of black-and-white film apparently used to print newspaper ads with, dating from October 1980 or shortly before. The seller of these items thought they were for printing posters, but the images are of such low quality, and black-and-white, that even