Hollywood: The Magical Land of Assassins and Prostitutes

By Dan Hagen

Today’s Hollywood movies, even the good ones, are breathless, formulaic to a fare-thee-well and as physically impossible as a Road Runner cartoon at least once every 20 minutes.

Hollywood morality is, of course, no better than its physics. Children who grow up on a diet of contemporary Hollywood fare could be forgiven for believing that the two most common professions are “assassin” and “prostitute.”

Or even “assassin prostitute,” my friend Philip Martin suggested. “Assassitute?”

The first rule of assassitute training is "Sex, then murder." The other way around is icky. And corpses are notoriously slow to pay.