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“Times Square” Fandom posts:
- Times Square: ink drawings (Gepeng Dewantoro)
- Dead mothers, absent fathers: grief in Times Square
- Robin Johnson, Trini Alvarado and Tim Curry in “Film Review”
- Times Square in “Tiger Beat”
- “Times Square” fan t-shirts
- Times Square colour lobby cards
- Nicky and Pammy’s blood oath: NYC, pre-HIV
- Times Square, Here no More
- Robin Johnson in “Film Review,” Oct. 1980
- Times Square press kit photographs: Nicky and Pammy (1981)
- Times Square press kit photographs: Nicky and Pammy (1980)
- Times Square press kit photographs: Tim Curry
- Nicky and Pammy, Angeles
- Poem for Pamela Pearl
- I heart Robin Johnson
- Times Square press kit photographs: Robin Johnson
- Robin Johnson, et al, “Code Name: Foxfire” b/w promo pic
- Celebrating Robin Johnson!
- Times Square press kit photographs: Trini Alvarado
- Kamikaze Hearts in The Cleo Club
- Pamela Pearl is a RIOT GRRRL!
- Nicky + Pammy / White Girl + Cyclona: Times Square / Freeway II
- Times Square review in “Monthly Film Bulletin”
- Times Square / Robin Johnson centrefold!
- The Voice of Revolution / Robin Johnson’s voice
- Pammy, Working Hot
- Passion! Fashion! Trashin’!: the costumes of Times Square
- Times Square and the dearth of denim
- Timesqueer: POV editing
- Riot Women of Contemporary Cinema
- Nicky, Off You
- Trini Alvarado in “Smash Hits”
- Love letter to Nikki / Career Advice
- Nicky and Pammy, Hand in Glove
- Louise the monkey and Trini Alvarado’s tits
- Times Square: Deleted Scene
- Design for Living: Pammy and Nicky
- Pammy and Nicky, lucubrated
- Trini Alvarado pin-up
- Times Square “Lesbian Film Guide” review
- Nicky, this IS one of your best ideas
- ¡No Pasarán! ¡Venceremos! ¡Sleez For All!
- Marotta4Life
- Robin Johnson pin-up!
- Times Square, nostalgia, and melancholy
- Pammy, Feed the Light
- Blaze a blaze: Trini and Robin, smokin’!
- Where are they now?: iii) Johnny LaGuardia
- St Nicky of the Piers
- Where are they now?: ii) Nicole “Nicky” Marotta
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Dead mothers, absent fathers: grief in Times Square
I watch many Hollywood films from the nineteen-thirties, forties and fifties. One cultural moment that I find to be a recurring representational trope is the treatment of death. More specifically, I am referring to its aftermath: in mainstream films from … Continue reading
Robin Johnson in “Film Review,” Oct. 1980
This article is from the October 1980 issue of Film Review. It is part of a two-page feature on new films about young women in music; the preceding page focuses on Hazel O’Connor in Breaking Glass (dir. Brian Gibson, 1980). … Continue reading
Kamikaze Hearts in The Cleo Club
Pamela Pearl (Trini Alvarado)’s place of employ in Times Square, the Cleo Club, certainly has its sartorial splendour. As Magazine Machine writes, “Why can’t all strip clubs be like this one instead of a cheesy lucite heeled den of broken … Continue reading
Nicky + Pammy / White Girl + Cyclona: Times Square / Freeway II
In the commentary track on the Anchor Bay release of Times Square, Robin Johnson laments that the film is one of the few “where you have two female characters being the leads, and coming out in any way, shape, or … Continue reading
Times Square review in “Monthly Film Bulletin”
As a review published contemporaneous to Times Square‘s release, Gilbert Adair’s review in the November 1980 issue of Monthly Film Bulletin is somewhat anomalous, in that it is largely positive towards Allan Moyle’s film. Due to its format and very … Continue reading
The Voice of Revolution / Robin Johnson’s voice
In my post “Love Letter to Nikki/ Career Advice,” I suggested that successful (early career) representations of women who don’t fit into the tight strictures of appropriate womanhood — in that case, by playing a butch lesbian — is detrimental … Continue reading
Timesqueer: POV editing
Point of view editing is a common technique of narrative cinema (also known as mainstream or Hollywood cinema), whereby we see the relationship between two shots, and they are connected by the “point-of-view” of a specific character. Simply, we first … Continue reading
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