Tag: Jacob Brackman

From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack TIMES SQUARE (songbook)

24 December, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

  … is exactly what it sounds like, a squarebound book collecting the sheet music for all the songs appearing on the Times Square soundtrack album. This of course excludes “Dangerous Type” by The Cars, which although heard for quite a bit longer in the film than some of the

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“Times Square isn’t a punk picture”

21 March, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

  Magazines are dated ahead by their publishers to try to keep them on the stands longer than their competitors. The date on a magazine usually refers to when it is supposed to be replaced by the next issue, not when it actually comes out. Anyway, although this issue of

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“The Trend Settles in New York”

13 February, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I confess I don’t quite understand what that title means. Am I missing something clever?   This article was published at the end of April 1980, from an interview done when there were two weeks left of principal photography, and is chock full of things to raise an eyebrow at.

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“Damn Dog”

24 December, 2014 Sean 2 Comments 1 category

Back to the 8 x 10 Kodak prints… here’s another shot of Robin as Nicky dressed up as Aggie playing “Damn Dog” in the Cleo Club, and as always, there’s no frame in the film that matches up. The frame I’ve chosen is the only one where Robin has both

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TIMES SQUARE Screenplay, 1979

6 October, 2014 Sean 4 Comments 1 category

So the story goes, Allan Moyle and Leanne Ungar rented an apartment on 42nd Street, having come to New York from a vibrant filmmaking scene in Montreal. They bought a used couch and found in the cushions a handwritten journal that appeared to be the work of an obsessive, possibly

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