Angelyne
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| Angelyne | |
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 Angelyne billboard on Sunset Boulevard |
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| Born | Angyline Angelyne |
| Other name(s) | Angyline Angelyne, Angelyne Billboardqueen |
Angelyne is an American model and occasional actress who has purportedly become an icon of Hollywood and Los Angeles best known for purchasing billboards advertising herself.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Angelyne drives a pink Corvette which bears the shortened name "ANGLYNE" on its license plate, and has a pink maltese named Buddha.[1] She began to gain local attention in the early 1980s when a series of billboards popped up around the city featuring her in various poses.[1] Around this time, she made her first appearance on national television as a guest on the late night talk show Thicke of the Night hosted by Alan Thicke, and featuring a young Arsenio Hall.
Although it has been claimed that billboard companies or a wealthy husband pays for her billboards, Angelyne, who is single, credits "investors" for financing the outdoor advertising.[1] Angelyne compares herself to Barbie, stating that "Kids think I'm a Barbie doll"[1] and, in one billboard, "Barbie wishes she were me."[2] Angelyne has not given her age or birthdate in interviews, although the IMDB lists 1958 (in Idaho) without providing a source. The Los Angeles County registrar of voters lists her (by her single first name only) to be age 44 as of June 20, 2007.[1]
Angelyne was one of the candidates in the 2003 California recall election, finishing 28th in a field of 135 candidates (garnering 2,533 votes).[1] Her slogan during the campaign was "We’ve had Gray, we’ve had Brown, now it’s time for some blond and pink."[1] She was also a candidate for Hollywood city council in 2002 if it were to secede from Los Angeles.[citation needed]
Her billboards have gained more fame than she, and have appeared in several television shows and movies[1]
[edit] Filmography
- Phantom of the Paradise (Uncredited, 1974)
- Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) ...as Herself, a customer @ an L.A. gas station
- Dangerous Love (1988)
- Hardcase and Fist (1989)
- Homer and Eddie (1989)
- The Malibu Beach Vampires (1991)
- Volcano (1997), starring Tommy Lee Jones
- The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
- Flies on Cupid (2000)
- King of Hollywood (2008)
[edit] In other media
- Hollywood Women (1994) (TV mini-series) ... as Herself.
- Nina Hagen = Punk + Glory (1999) (music documentary) ...as Herself.
- Cleavage (2002) (TV documentary) ...as Herself
- Video on Trial(TV Show- 1 episode) (2006) ...as Herself
- We Are All Made Out Of Stars (music video) by Moby
- She once made her own music video, performing the song "I Always Keep A List of All the Guys I Kiss". It features her driving around Los Angeles in a pink Corvette.
[edit] Trivia
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- Some of her earliest exposure came when her billboard appeared in the opening montage of the hit TV show Moonlighting.
- When being interviewed by the Malibu High School newspaper The Surfwriter, she said she is a billboard princess, not queen, because "princesses have more fun."[citation needed]
- Angelyne was the topic of the Not My Job quiz on National Public Radio's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". Listeners learned that she portrayed a Barbara Bush Impersonator in 1991's The Malibu Beach Vampires and she wrote a script, The Bra that Ate L.A. (as yet unproduced).
- In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, a news reporter covering a tornado outbreak in downtown L.A. is struck and killed by an Angelyne billboard thrown at him by one of the tornadoes.
- In Escape from L.A., starring Kurt Russell, the main character walks up Hollywood Boulevard, with Los Angeles in ruins around him, yet he looks up to see a pristine Angelyne billboard.
- In the movie Shrek 2, a spoof of an Angelyne billboard appears, featuring Fairy Godmother in a similar iconic pose.
- In the television show Futurama, in which the main character Philip J. Fry sees an Angelyne billboard after waking up from a thousand-year long cryogenic sleep.
- In The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Born-Again", an Angelyne billboard is briefly seen during Ned Flanders' L.A. dream sequence.
- Her billboard appears in background shots in the 1995 film Get Shorty.
- Featured on the Earth Girls Are Easy movie soundtrack (1988) as the writer/performer of Animal Attraction
- In Jawbreaker, the character played by Judy Greer is shown reclining seductively on the hood of a Cadillac and dancing for an assembled crowd. The character played by Rose McGowan pulls her down from the car and sarcastically calls her "Angelyne."
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Angelyne at the Internet Movie Database
- Angelyne at Allmovie
- Flickr photos
- Web archive of www.angelyne.com
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| NAME | Angelyne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Angelyne, Angyline |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Model, actress |
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