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Times Square premiere ticket, 14 October 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThe Ziegfeld Theater was a Brutalist concrete cube in the middle of 54th Street. Inside, it was New York City’s last great movie palace. Times Square played there for two weeks starting October 17, 1980. The Tuesday before that, the movie had its world premiere there, followed by a gala party at Tavern on the…
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Films Illustrated Vol. 10 No. 114, March 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail In the February 1981 Films Illustrated, David Quinlan took a paragraph to give Times Square a three-star review, saying essentially that it’s a decent popcorn movie in spite of its many flaws. In this next issue, Douglas Slater takes three full pages to give Times Square one of its best reviews ever, finding it…
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Screen International No. 246, June 21-28, 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail This is the fifth appearance Times Square made in the press that I know of. The first was a mention in Radio and Records, the date of which I’m uncertain, but since it describes the movie as coming out in the summer I’m placing it first — possibly even as early as November 1979…
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Another 2-fer
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailTwo more UK black and white press photos on a single 8 x 10 print. Like the previous one of these, we have here one familiar picture and one new one. At least I’ve never seen the top photo before, of Nicky waiting for her cue from Johnny to start her performance. Or…
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“Nick & Slick”
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailTwo UK black and white press photos on a single 8 x 10 print. Who exactly printed these, and why, are mysteries, as I haven’t yet come across any publication that used them, but their country of origin is made clear by the captions announcing Times Square’s release in the UK. A bigger mystery is…
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US Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 18, December 23, 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“… a pouty thrush named Robin lights up Times Square.” RSO’s and AFD’s publicity departments were sure that Times Square would be a hit, and more importantly, that Robin would be the breakout star, and the Hollywood press agreed long enough for US magazine to run her picture as one of the new talents of…
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Robert Stigwood
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailRobert Stigwood passed away January 4. If it hadn’t been for him, Jacob Brackman and Allan Moyle would have likely continued to develop the screenplay for Times Square for another year or two. The result would have been a more coherent story, somewhat darker in tone, with more overt indicators of Nicky and Pammy’s relationship,…
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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “TIMES SQUARE”
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailFinally, here’s what all the fuss was about. The 2 record set containing all but one of the songs from the film. In their haste to load the film with soundtrack material, they actually added one too many, and for some reason lost to time, the excellent “Dangerous Type” by The Cars was cut. …
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Times Square Press Material folder (post 3 of 5)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“… in one of those inexplicable chance occasions, out of the blue, Robin Johnson appeared…” Four more stills from the Times Square U.S. press kit. I don’t really have anything to say about these, but when have I let that stop me. It means nothing, but I notice in the first pic, Pammy’s dad…
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Times Square Press Folder
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailAt least that’s what it was called when I got it. It’s only a folder though in the sense that it’s folded, not that it contained something else like the press kits which have pockets to hold papers and photos. This is just a big piece of heavy glossy stock, folded over. It’s not really…