What price celebrity?

Josh Moody  |  Features  |  Letter from America
Date posted:  1 Jan 2006
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A new list of the top ten highest paid Hollywood stars has recently been posted. Julia Roberts tops the bill earning a massive $10 million per film. Ex-Friends star Jennifer Aniston comes in last at a measly $9 million a movie (poor thing).

Statistics are notoriously unpredictable because their seeming precision belies a host of assumptions. Nonetheless these numbers above are pretty straightforward. They give me something of a shudder when I compare them to another statistic someone reported to me the other day: every minute 6,000 people die of hunger.

Inequities

What kind of world do we live in where in one corner of the globe someone can rake in enough profits over the glossy lengths of a Hollywood blockbuster to compare with the Gross Domestic Product of a small country, while elsewhere people starve for want of a dry husk?

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