Angelyne the billboard queen that no-one's ever really seen.She looms over the Sunset Strip The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California. It extends from West Hollywood's east border with Hollywood at Marmont Lane to its west border with Beverly Hills at Phyllis street. like a giant pink and white Barbie doll Barbie doll popular dress-up doll; extremely conventional and feminine. [Am. Hist.: Sann, 179] See : Fads gone crazy on silicone. Her bounteous boun·te·ous adj. 1. Giving or inclined to give generously. 2. Generously and copiously given. See Synonyms at liberal. bust is one of Hollywood's most famous landmarks, so large that it takes a fork lift truck to hoist hoist: see winch. into place. Leaning against her classic pink Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and , she wears the expression that's meant to pass for slack-jawed desire in girlie girl·ie also girl·y adj. Informal Featuring minimally clothed or naked women typically in pornographic contexts: girlie magazines. mags. It comes across more like the look of a dazed daze tr.v. dazed, daz·ing, daz·es 1. To stun, as with a heavy blow or shock; stupefy. 2. To dazzle, as with strong light. n. A stunned or bewildered condition. heifer which has suddenly realised that the nice man is holding a cattle prod cattle prod n. A usually electrified prod designed for driving cattle. . Her name is Angelyne, and she's the Billboard Queen of Hollywood. The woman who sports California's second best known Silicone Valley. Giant 15ft wide posters of her first went up some time between 1976 and 1982 - history is hazy. Now a new batch has appeared, reviving one of Hollywood's deepest mysteries... just who is Angelyne? She doesn't sing. She doesn't act. She is simply famous for being famous. All she does is lounge on her Corvette on her billboard at a cost of dollars 20,000 a month - totally in charge of her fantasy that she is a major Holywood star. You'll see no interviews with her on celebrity TV shows and read no in- depth interviews about the "real meaning" of big bazooms in the serious press. Countless reporters have written about not meeting Angelyne. You are about to read one more. "Their problem," confides a Mr Hennig, who claims to be Angelyne's manager, "is that they just wanted a date. You know what male reporters are like... you're different." The difference gained me phone calls that were not returned and promised interviews that were cancelled due to "Angelyne's punishing schedule". A list of the credits for the 15 films and four albums Mr Hennig claims for his client was said to be faxed but never received, said to be mailed but never delivered. A video of Earth Girls Are Easy, in which Hennig says Angelyne has a featured role, shows someone in a crowd scene that could very well be her. She's reputed to have written a screenplay called The Bra That Ate LA. Mr Hennig just laughs away questions about who pays for the billboards. Rumours say a Turkish boyfriend or an Arab prince. Hennig says that to a woman of Angelyne's multi-talents and international reputation the cost of the billboards is small change . Certainly the dollars 20 it takes to join her "international fan club" can't me et the bill. Eventually you start to wonder - does she exist? Angelyne is reported as saying: "Among the things I love are fairies. And trips out of my body. I am the quintessential quin·tes·sen·tial adj. Of, relating to, or having the nature of a quintessence; being the most typical: "Liszt was the quintessential romantic" Musical Heritage Review. billboard queen that's supposed to happen. "I feel like I've been embodied in the cement of Hollywood for 3,000 years." After trying to track you down, Angelyne... you and me both, babe. |
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