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  • Kinejun No. 814, June 15, 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail       Kinema Junpo (Kinejun, Motion Picture Times) devoted three pages to a promotional Times Square article in its June 15, 1981 issue, for the film’s Japanese opening on June 21. The text would appear to be the usual brief synopsis, with a list of some of the cast and crew. The small…

  • Jackie No. 884, 13 December 1980

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail   Join the Professionals…   The December 13, 1980 Jackie led off their “Hot Gossip” section on page 36 with a promotional piece for the Times Square soundtrack album, attached at the layout to a promo piece for the debut album by The Professionals, providing the extremely tenuous and only known link between Times…

  • Fotogramas No. 1650, March 25, 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail     Two months before Times Square opened in Spain, the film magazine Fotogramas ran the same kind of promotional article we’ve seen in Mexico, Thailand, and Germany. The article contains nothing new, but four of the six stills from the film never appeared anywhere else as far as I know, including an almost…

  • Star of Pacific, Thailand, September 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Times Square opened in Thailand in August 1981, but here’s a Thai magazine celebrating Robin in September. This was followed by Filmstar Vol. 1 No. 6 that featured a Thai translation of an interview with Robin that had appeared in Seventeen Magazine in October 1980. Did Times Square play in Thailand for three months?…

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

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail 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 thing about this issue…

  • Bravo, No. 21, Germany, May 19, 1982

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailMay 1982, and Times Square was about to have its final premiere, in West Germany. Why did it take this long, over a year and a half after its initial premiere, and a year after the rest of Europe had seen it? I have no idea. But someone still had hope for the movie, as…

  • October 1981: Times SquareGreat TV Entertainment…?

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail  According to the October 1981 issue of Great TV Entertainment, the official schedule for Showtime and The Movie Channel, Times Square was shown six times on The Movie Channel, on October 25, 27, and 31. I could have sworn it was shown many times more than that; the showings must have continued into November,…

  • Filmstar, Vol. 1 No. 6, Thailand, October 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail         I would think that by October of 1981, a year after its initial release in New York, and two or three months after its Thai release, Times Square would have long since closed in Thailand and become a distant memory. But that didn’t stop Filmstar magazine from running an article…

  • Filmstar, Vol 1 No. 3, Thailand, August 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail       By August 1981, Robin might already have figured out that neither she nor Andy Gibb were going to get a call telling them when to report to the Grease 2 set. Most of the world had already forgotten about Times Square. But it wasn’t quite over yet.   Thailand’s Filmstar magazine…

  • JUKE, No. 302, February 7, 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The soundtrack album cover image on the cover of Australia’s Juke no. 302 is the only Robin content in the issue, but it’s still a remarkable piece of Times Square history. In Melbourne at least, PolyGram Records promoted the heck out of the film’s premiere for an entire weekend, and the magazine gave away…