Angelyne—first name only—was doing the whole “famous for being famous” thing back when Kim Kardashian, reality television and Instagram thots were just a twinkle in our eyes. With her low-cut, pink mini dresses and blonde bouffant, she is the eternal Barbie, and the quintessential Holly-weirdo. Her appeal is her mystique—the fact that everyone knows about her but doesn’t actually know anything about her.
Angelyne—first name only—was doing the whole “famous for being famous” thing back when Kim Kardashian, reality television and Instagram thots were just a twinkle in our eyes. With her low-cut, pink mini dresses and blonde bouffant, she is the eternal Barbie, and the quintessential Holly-weirdo.
, a short drive away from my hometown; since I was constantly driving back and forth like her, I’d joke to friends that we should carpool. Last October, we finally did.I first met Angelyne while attending her art show at a small gallery on Sunset Boulevard, at an opening event filled with Angelyne-worshipping Hollywood weirdos. Hundreds of paintings, both original and prints, decorated the walls and tables inside, each piece depicting the artist in various poses and themes.
As she drives, she flips open a pink Motorola Razr cell phone to read a text she received about California’s assisted death law, which had passed that same day. “This is great news. I had a friend who was in a wheelchair who was just so tortured and no one would help her,” Angelyne says. “You should always want to die young. Even if you’re 60 or 100, you’ll die young.” Yet with her musings about death and dying, like most people in show biz, Angelyne is not one to openly discuss her age.
Then there was the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, which was packed with fringe candidates from every planet, from Gary Coleman and Gallagher, to Arianna Huffington and Larry Flynt. Angelyne, of course, was also on the ballot. SheReuters at the time: “Entertainment is a lot harder than politics. Entertainment is a matter of emotion and ego and politics is a matter of basic rational mathematics.
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