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English

Proper noun

  1. A given name borrowed from French.

French

Proper noun

  1. A given name, a variant of Angelina.

Extensive Definition

morefootnotes article 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.

Biography

Angelyne drives a pink Corvette which bears the shortened name "ANGLYNE" on its license plate, and has a pink maltese named Buddha. 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. 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. Angelyne compares herself to Barbie, stating that "Kids think I'm a Barbie doll" and, in one billboard, "Barbie wishes she were me." 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.
Angelyne was one of the candidates in the 2003 California recall election, finishing 28th in a field of 135 candidates (garnering 2,533 votes). Her slogan during the campaign was "We’ve had Gray, we’ve had Brown, now it’s time for some blond and pink." She was also a candidate for Hollywood city council in 2002 if it were to secede from Los Angeles.
Her billboards have gained more fame than she, and have appeared in several television shows and movies

Filmography

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.

Trivia

  • 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."
  • 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 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.
  • 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

References

External links

Angeline in Spanish: Angelyne
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