The actress stars in Peacock’s limited series about the Los Angeles billboard queen.
Television simply can’t stop telling us the truth.
First, a little background for anyone who exists outside Los Angeles.
“I am not a woman.
I am an icon,” she breathes, comforting herself with the mantra.
“Is this the story you’ve been telling yourself?”
Angelyne sneers at Cory, interrupting his flashback about their breakup in 1982.
She then demands that he performherversion of the split, calling “Action!”
under her breath to start the new scene.
Eventually,Angelynegets to the true story of Angelyne.
“But it can be challenging in this reality.”
But none of that would really matter if we didn’t get a sense of the human underneath.
“Thank you for calling Angelyne.”
Hearing it gave me a little thrill, like I’d just had a brush with true celebrity.
