Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticStay in Los Angeles long enough, and you’ll have an Angelyne story. Decades after plastering the city in mysterious billboards bearing her name and Barbie-esque silhouette, the self-made urban legend can still be found zipping through the streets in her signature Corvette, a flash of bubblegum pink on the desert horizon.
While less ubiquitous than she once was, Angelyne remains a hyper-local symbol of a Hollywood dream come to plasticene life.
She was famous, as the often derisive saying goes, for being famous and not much more — which is, as the new Peacock series about her argues, exactly how she wanted it.Starring Emmy Rossum, an executive producer and self-professed super-fan of the unknowable person she plays through layers of makeup and enormous fake breasts, “Angelyne” attempts to unpack the woman, the myth, the legend over five self-reflective episodes.
Even as the show uses Gary Baum’s Hollywood Reporter investigations into Angelyne as a base — and The Hollywood Reporter as a co-producer for the project — the fact of Angelyne’s extreme reticence to reveal any single personal detail about her pre-Angelyne life looms large.
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