![Robin Johnson signs autographs at a taping of the Merv Griffin Show in October 1980. Text on back: [handwritten] Robin Johnson (Times Square) 10/80 - Merv [stamped] Photo by Audrey L. Chiu Michelson Agency](https://storage.googleapis.com/rjnet-wordpress/2025/03/b06c2806-1980-10_rj_by_audrey_l_chiu_merv_griffin_show_1080p.jpg)
The information on the back of this photograph indicates it was taken by Audrey L. Chiu for the Michelson Agency, in October 1980, at the taping of Robin’s appearance on The Merv Griffin Show. That show was broadcast in November 1980 as I recall, well before my family could afford
Did you know that before Times Square opened on October 17, 1980, before its big premiere on October 14, there were multiple sneak previews on October 3? Neither did I, until this turned up. I wonder if the film the preview audiences saw was
One problem with collecting this stuff so haphazardly over so many years is that almost none of it has any kind of provenance. I get something from someone who collects all sorts of film memorabilia in order to resell it to the one person who might want a particular item…
![24. Pamela's father [Peter Coffield] loses his temper with Nicky (ROBIN JOHNSON) when she refuses to tell him the whereabouts of his daughter. A scene from "TIMES SQUARE" distributed by COLUMBIA/EMI/WARNER Film Distributors.](https://storage.googleapis.com/rjnet-wordpress/2023/03/0f553055-ts-uk-still-no-24-front_1080p.jpg)
“You’re a big man, hit me again!” I’m starting to think that there are two separate sets of UK black-and-white publicity stills, one with borders, one without. You know, just to make things more confusing. Thankfully, so far at least there isn’t another one labeled “24” but not full-bleed. On
Way back in October 2014, I posted a photo of Robin and Trini getting ready to shoot a scene that was later cut from the film, and complained that although the vast majority of Times Square publicity stills don’t actually come from shots of takes used in the film, there
“Times Square… introduces Robin Johnson, dynamic 16-year-old Brooklyn actress and singer in her film debut.” Okay, forget what I said last time about posting the pictures in the order they occur in the film. There are too many without Robin in them to do it in a way that I
Generally referred to as The Press Kit, this is the big-ass promotional package AFD released in North America. Since they didn’t have a table of contents, I can’t be sure what all was in it, not without examining all of them… which is impossible because I’m afraid most of them
This is either the only truly unique item I have, or the most worthless. It’s a 15″ x 22.5″ board, unsigned, gray on the back, and the front being pen and colored ink or watercolor (I don’t know nearly enough about art technique to be able to tell reliably). I’ve
At 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,
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.