Times Square (film)
Times Square is a 1980 film, set in New York City, starring Trini Alvarado and Robin Johnson as teenage runaways from opposite sides of the tracks, and Tim Curry as a radio DJ. The plot of the film embodies a punk rock ethic of misunderstood youth articulating their frustrations toward adult authority through music.
There is a citywide search for Pamela, after her father reports her as missing and accuses Nicky of kidnapping her. Nicky and Pamela try to eke out a living by engaging in card games, petty larceny, and odd jobs. Using discarded furniture and lines, Nicky and Pamela deck out their warehouse hideout, making it a bohemianstyle apartment, and craft costumes for themselves. Meanwhile, latenight radio station disc jockey Johnny LaGuardia Tim Curry, who broadcasts from a penthouse studio overlooking Times Square, realizes that Mr. Pearls missing daughter is the same Zombie Girl who sent him letters, telling him how sad and lonely she feels. LaGuardia, who resents Mr. Pearls Reclaim Rebuild Restore campaign to redevelop and gentrify Times Square, uses his radio station, WJAD, to reach out to Nicky and Pamela he reads out Pamelas poetry over the air.Nicky and Pamela write songs together and form an underground punk rock band, The Sleez Sisters, with the help of LaGuardia, who sees Nicky and Pamela as a symbol of youthful rebellion and an opportunity to undermine Pamelas father. The Sleez Sisters become a hit with the citys disillusioned youth after broadcasting their volatile punk rock songs and speeches on WJAD. Nicky and Pamela encourage their fans to throw TV sets off apartment rooftops they also send messages to the doctors who treated them, and to Pamelas father, through their songs. Pamela tells her father through WJAD, Dear Daddy, I am not kidnapped. I am menapped, I am soulnapped, I am Nickynapped, I am happynapped. We are having our own renaissance. She also says, You want to make Times Square as cold as your icy eye? Why do you want to punish people who arent like you? You know, at home, Ive heard you use the following words spic, faggot, nigger, psycho. Well, I just want you to know, your daughter is one. ........
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