For Emmy Rossum, California ‘80s personality Angelyne wasn’t about the hair or the heels or even the boobs. It was about the voice.
Rossum, 35, first saw the billboard queen when she was 13, driving around Los Angeles with her mom, shuffling from audition to audition in a Hertz rental car. Angelyne became a player on the L.A. scene in the 1980s with a series of billboards that showed her posing seductively with just one word: her name. No one seemed sure what she did. She was otherworldly, high above the city, all pink and ethereal. She didn’t do anything. She just was.
“I remember… being so struck by this hypercurated image of femininity and mystery,” the New York native told the Daily News.
