Emmy Rossum gets weird in wacky series ‘Angelyne:’ review
21.05.2022 - 02:17
/ nypost.com
streaming, the limited series follows Angelyne (Emmy Rossum, “Shameless”), nee Ronia Tamar Goldberg, who, for decades, has been an iconic curiosity driving around in her pink Corvette (think a more Hollywood version of the infamous Times Square Naked Cowboy) and appearing on billboards where it wasn’t clear what she was advertising — aside from her own desire for everyone to know her face. As depicted from a nearly unrecognizable Rossum (who’s buried beneath a platinum bouffant, fake chest and Minnie Mouse voice), Angelyne’s aesthetic is part Dolly Parton, part Barbie. The show compares her to a prototype of figures who are “famous for being famous” such as Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.
(The real Angelyne, now 71, is an executive producer on this series.)If Rossum (who’s also an executive producer) was looking for a role that strayed as far as possible from her brunette, stressed out, impoverished, Chicago-based Fiona Gallagher, “Angelyne” is it. She’s clearly having a blast embracing campy glamour, infusing her performance with a mix of coy charm, ethereal melancholia, bubbly ambition and a borderline delusional determination to manifest her own reality.Angelyne’s real name, identity, and past as a Polish descendant of Holocaust survivors were a mystery until a 2017 Hollywood Reporter article. The series opens to an offscreen man reading that article to Angelyne, as she lies on pink silk bedding, before flashing back to a screen card that reads in pink lettering, “1981 or 1982, depending on who you ask…” “Angelyne” is playful with the truth: characters are based on real-life figures, but with changed names.
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