Emmy Rossum is hitting the red carpet to promote her new Peacock series!
12.05.2022 - 00:33 / variety.com
Sasha Urban editorMost Angelenos know the Billboard Queen, Angelyne. The enigmatic human Barbie, self-described as a “Rorschach test in pink,” has been a mainstay of Los Angeles culture ever since billboards bearing her face and name began popping up throughout the city in 1984.
She’s frequently spotted driving around L.A. in her signature pink Corvette, selling merchandise out of her trunk and charging $20 for a photograph.Notoriously private about her true identity (although she has run for office more than once), she re-entered the spotlight in 2017, when a Hollywood Reporter exposé revealed her to be Renee Tami Goldberg, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors who created the fantastical identity of Angelyne through sheer willpower and a thirst for fame.
Now, that investigation has been adapted as a scripted series for Peacock, starring and executive produced by Emmy Rossum (“Shameless”). The real Angelyne was initially set to appear in the series, but decided to tap out for reasons that remain unclear.
She has no formal credit on the show.However, on the hot pink carpet at the show’s premiere — held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on Tuesday evening — Rossum told Variety that the real Angelyne, now 71, granted the series the rights to her life, trademarks, art and punk-pop music catalog, all of which are utilized on the show.“It was so important to me that she be involved in this and that we were able to faithfully recreate her iconic billboards,” Rossum said. “And it was really, really important to me that she be paid for her contribution, not just to the show, but to pop culture over the last 50 years.”While “Angelyne” incorporates facts from the original investigation and the production team’s own
.Emmy Rossum is hitting the red carpet to promote her new Peacock series!
Emmy Rossum is recalling her unforgettable birth story.
Emmy Rossum is sharing her very memorable birth story!
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.
spoke with Inside Edition about how she feels about the portrayal.She explained that “Angelyne” is fictionalized and doesn’t give a full account of her life. “I had a glimpse of it and I refused to watch it,” she said. She went on, “It doesn’t do me justice.
Emmy Rossum is looking back at the first time she met Angelyne!
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The real Angelyne is speaking out about Emmy Rossum’s new Peacock series — and she isn’t a fan.
Emmy Rossum plays mysterious Los Angeles icon Angelyne in the new Peacock series and now the real woman is sharing her thoughts on the show.
Emmy Rossum admitted it took more than 11 hours in the hair and makeup chair to transform into Angelyne for the Peacock series about the mysterious Los Angeles billboard icon. The 35-year-old former "Shameless" actress detailed the extensive process of playing the legendary LA local, whose known around town for driving her Barbie pink Corvette and became famous in the '80s when massive billboards featuring her portrait started appearing on city streets.
love to be like Barbie,” Emmy Rossum as Angelyne in the Peacock series of the same name. “She lives a painless existence. You can stick her with things and she won’t cry, she doesn’t hurt.
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.
The world of “Angelyne” is hot pink. It’s a pink that can’t be described in terms of bubble gum or cotton candy because no one in the world would ever invent something pink enough to make this pink’s namesake.
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