{"id":6292,"date":"2020-02-24T04:48:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2020-02-24T04:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:48:41","slug":"close-up-on-angelyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/close-up-on-angelyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Close-Up On Angelyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you lived in Hollywood in the \u201880s, you couldn\u2019t miss countless billboards featuring a buxom blond named <strong>Angelyne<\/strong>.&nbsp; The \u201cmodel\u201d (for lack of a better term) had reportedly courted a wealthy sponsor to bankroll the billboard blitz, and a legend was bought\u2026er, born.&nbsp; Angelyne was soon seen in ads, at events, and on red carpets.&nbsp; She even ran for governor of California in 2003 (she finished 28<sup>th<\/sup>).&nbsp; The problem is, she never really did much of anything except show up places \u2013 including in supermarket parking lots where she can still be seen selling T-shirts out of the trunk of her aging pink Corvette.&nbsp; So I was shocked to learn that <em>NBC<\/em>\u2019s streaming <em>Peacock <\/em>platform is producing a series about her life.&nbsp; Don\u2019t get me wrong \u2013 there have been biopics about people with less going for them (although, for the life of me, I can\u2019t think of anyone off the top of my head).&nbsp; Angie will be played by <strong>Emmy Rossum <\/strong>(who I know has done things, but for the life of me, I can\u2019t think of anything off the top of my head).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you lived in Hollywood in the \u201880s, you couldn\u2019t miss countless billboards featuring a buxom blond named Angelyne.&nbsp; The \u201cmodel\u201d (for lack of a better term) had reportedly courted a wealthy sponsor to bankroll the billboard blitz, and a legend was bought\u2026er, born.&nbsp; Angelyne was soon seen in ads, at events, and on red<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6293,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}