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Eleganza: Introducing Angelyne

John Mendelsohn, Creem, May 1984

HOLLYWOOD teems with lusters after fame, rock stars of tomorrow, would-be symbols of sex. But none of them has managed to make herself more conspicuous than Angelyne, whose pouting likeness has adorned traffic light switching boxes and bus shelters through the '80s, and who, as this is written, reclines sultrily atop her fuchsia Corvette on a jillion flourescent back-lit billboards from Capitol Tower to the sea.

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