All Chana Wellington, the agent, said was: "You'll do everything you're told, exactly as you're told, whenever you're told, no matter what you're told! You're a smart girl. An excellent actress. But this is a tough town, Honey, and there's no room for pretty young things who don't know what side their bread is buttered on." Honey had been in Hollywood long enough to know that the casting couch wasn't a myth. She had read almost every novel about the motion picture capital while still in high school, and most of them alluded to the fact that the quickest route to stardom was the bedroom. But she thought that was something other girls would have to face. Her talent would conquer all. It didn't.
Now she was thinking like her roommate, Penny, who'd told her from the start, "You do what you have to do. It's a cold, cruel world out there."