Get out the pink heels and tank tops (and don’t act like you don’t have them): the trailer for the new biopic series Angelyne has arrived.
Angelyne emerged seemingly out of nowhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a fixture on billboards around Los Angeles. She also began to appear around the city herself, dressed in hot pink with a plunging neckline and driving a matching pink corvette. Over the ensuing decades, she released a series of albums, turned up in films and on television, and always eschewed discussing her origins. That coy attitude fueled the pressing question: who was this woman?
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Call her a proto influencer: famous for being famous, rather than for any accomplishments.
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The new series, which stars Emmy Rossum in the title role, will explore Angelyne’s rise to infamy and her cultural effect. The real Angelyne produces the new show, so we’re not quite sure how much of her real story or identity it will expose (something, incidentally, The Hollywood Reporter definitively did in 2017… but we don’t want to spoil the story here).
Martin Freeman, Lukas Gage, and Alex Karpovsky also star. The series lands on Peacock May 19.
johncp56
WHO?
bsg1967
I’m 54 and I also say who must of been an American thing
Joshooeerr
Congrats. You’ve used almost the same number of key strokes to log in and comment as it would have taken to Google “Angelyne”. She might not have been hugely famous, but anyone who ever drove around LA anytime in the 70s or 80s saw her posters and vaguely knew that she was a wannabe starlet. Those posters also appeared in dozens, probably hundreds of LA-based films, TV shows and music videos of their time. So the image is semi-iconic. Like all of these “who?” / “never heard of them” issues, it’s a question of how culturally aware you were at the given time. I’m just amazed when people scurry to admit to being totally unaware, even of something a little off-beat like this.
TimidTim
I remember her. Rodney Bingenheimer plays her on his show from time to time. Makes sense being
she made a name for herself in LA.
ScottOnEarth
Anyone who lives in WeHo has seen wonderful Angelyne around town, in her pretty pink Corvette and hanging out with the gays. Many of us have wondered where she came from and what she actually *does* for a living. I’m looking forward to this series for that reason and because talented, beautiful Emmy Rossum is starring!
Tranceboi1
I remember the Moby video , We Are All Made of Stars had an appearance by Angelyne in the music video.