Prompt: Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty-cents for your soul.

Image is everything in Hollywood. As long as you’ve got a beautiful face or a chiseled body, you can ride the waves of fame and fortune. However, when the beauty fades, your value drops faster than the stock market.

There is a saying that, “outside beauty is alright if the inside corresponds”. If this is true, then the same value should be placed on the soul and the kiss equally seeing that without one you couldn’t get the other. Hollywood, on the other hand has a misplaced view of what is valuable and sees only the physical attributes, as having any lasting value. How ironic when the life of a kiss has no comparison to the life of a soul.

What drives an industry filled with a plethora of actors, actresses, producers and countless film crews? It is the superficial aesthetic look of a woman or man that has value as long as they are needed. Keeping up with the Joneses as it were is absolutely imperative. If you don’t, you will undoubtedly lose status and wealth, and become less than “fifty-cents”.