![]() ![]() The main point is that this is a tourist attraction for the entertainment industry, so your name needs to be famous enough to attract tourists to come and see it. You also need to have been working for at least 5 years. In fact several animals have their names embedded into the ground there, including Lassie and even fictional animal characters like Kermit the Frog, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. The emphasis is on accomplishing some expertise in the entertainment field, which means that reality TV stars are excluded, because it’s not counted as proper work. This means that you have to have produced something genuinely notable and celebrated in the entertainment world, like made a popular film, done some great acting on TV or in movies or made some music that’s popular enough to have made you famous. How to get your star on Hollywood BoulevardĮssentially anyone can apply, as long as they have $30,000 dollars to spare, but the application will not be accepted unless it meets these criteria: ![]() ![]() Walking along Hollywood Blvd, and looking at the stars there, I wondered – how do you actually get your name on a star here? (Not that I want to of course) I just wondered – who decides which names are added and how does it happen? Since then I’ve done a bit of research (I read a TIME article based on an interview with a member of the selection committee – you can read it here: /6/how-to-get-a-star-on-the-hollywood-walk-of-fame/), and so… If you make it as a celeb, they put a star on the pavement here and you know you’ve made it because hundreds of tourists walk all over you and spill coke and ketchup on you every day. At some point we took a walk along Hollywood Bld – that’s the one with all the stars on the ground and the names of celebrities. I can’t remember which day this was as I’m losing track of time, but it doesn’t matter. I expect there will be one or two more in this series before we get back to normal podcasting as usual. Let’s see how much of that I can actually get through in this episode. ![]() In this one I’m planning to cover these things: Hollywood Boulevard and celebrity culture, an analysis of the mysterious lyrics to Hotel California by The Eagles, a visit to the extremely wealthy area of Beverley Hills, some more differences between American and British English vocabulary, the church of Scientology and then Yosemite National Park. I hope you’re finding this series interesting. Take your time, listen to them at your leisure, in your own time and at your own speed. How are you? Are you keeping up with all these new episodes? I suppose if you’re listening to this it means you are keeping up, but don’t feel rushed. Hi everyone, here’s part 4 in this road trip mini-series. ![]()
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