Tag: Thailand

Star of Pacific, Thailand, September 1981

8 March, 2020 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

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

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

3 December, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

        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

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Times Square movie poster, Thailand, 1981

21 November, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

      Movie posters in Thailand are an art form unto themselves. Google “Thai movie posters” and you will go down a rabbit hole you may take days to emerge from. Thai film distributors discard the authorized promotional materials and commission original painted montages in glorious colors. Some of

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

9 November, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

      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.

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