Very strange story
I never heard of her until I read this tweet yesterday
Fascinating footnote to a footnote: Angelyne, a kind of cult figure in Los Angeles whose semi-fame was a result of posting billboards of herself in suggestive poses around L.A. in the mid-1980s, got 30,172 votes for governor in California recall election last week. More… pic.twitter.com/TQyHXbIRUf
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 19, 2021
Who’s Angelyne? Well, that’s a fascinating rabbit hole to jump down, as @garymbaum did in @thr in 2017: https://t.co/2smtI9FJIl
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 19, 2021
Who was that woman that used to have all the billboards of herself all over Hollywood?
— lisa 🪓 (@JLisaJay) February 24, 2022
Did not make her a star.
It was misguided. It was never gonna work.
But I kinda understand how she got to a place where that seemed like the answer.
Sad! 