angelyne
Angelyne can barely squeeze into the 8-foot-wide storage room. [1]
And yet likenesses of the ageless little sexpot who calls herself only Angelyne have been pouting down from gigantic billboards at the unfortunate populace of Hollywood and their visitors for fully a decade now. [2]
Boxes of printed posters and placards depicting her in glamorous poses fill the Hollywood self-storage space she is renting while she feuds with city redevelopment leaders and developers of a planned $500-million luxury project near the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. [1]
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Angelyne (born 1958) 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. [4]
At another, in the spring of 1987, an eight-story-high, 85 x 44 likeness of her perched protuberantly atop her famous pink Corvette adorned the side of the old building at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. [2]
In the movie Escape from L.A. (1996) with Los Angeles in ruins Snake Plissken walks up Hollywood Boulevard and looks up to see a pristine Angelyne billboard. [3]
Its full-color photograph shows her reclining voluptuously across the top of her pink Corvette wearing form-fitting pink pants, a tight, low-cut white blouse, sunglasses and a seductive pout. [1]
The grandfatherly president of Myer Show Print, a Los Angeles-, Reno-, and Phoenix-based outdoor advertising company, her longtime patron Hugo Maisnik met Angelyne in 1982 when she ordered a quantity of huge likenesses of herself with which to beautify Los Angeles’s bus shelters. [2]
She is about to embark on a new billboard campaign after an 18-month break, she says. [...] “Our relocation department is working with Angelyne to find solutions to her business needs,” said Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency spokeswoman Kiara Harris. [1]
According to her gaunt, peevish Monkee-haired major-domo, her fan club has an international membership in excess of 20,000, and is a source of revenue. [2]
Angelyne was one of the candidates in the 2003 California recall election, finishing 28th in a field of 135 candidates (garnering 2,533 votes). [4]
Developers paid relocation expenses for her and about 35 other tenants who were occupying shops and offices in the path of the Hollywood and Vine project. [1]
Sharon Tate’s ghost is in your face!” She also acknowledges her uncanny resemblance to the cartoon character Little Annie Fanny, and is presently on the outs with the heretofore steadfast Hugo for not allowing the folks who gave us Tron to base a Saturday morning cartoon show on her. [2]
Sources:
[1] Angelyne seeks enhanced deal - Los Angeles Times
[2] Forever Angelyne
[3] Angelyne - Biography
[4] Angelyne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia