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     In Hollywood, everybody wants to be rich, famous, and beautiful.Nobody wants to be ols, unknown, and poor.For Hollywood kids, life can be difficult because they grow up in such an unreal atmosphere.Their parents are ambitious, and the children are part of the parent's ambitions.Parents pay for extravagant parties, expensive cars, and designer clothes.When every dream can come true, kids learn the value of nothing because they have everything.A 13-year-old boy, has a driver, cradit cards, and unlimited cash to do what he wants when he wants.'oE DAY, I'll earn more than my Dad, 'he boasts.
     Parents buy care and attention for their children because they have no time to give it themselves.Amanda's mother employs a personal trainer, a nutritionist, a bodyguard/chauffeur, a singing coach, and a cunsellor to look af ter all her 15-year-old daughter's needs.Ofthen there is no parent at home most days, so children decide whether to make their own meals or go out to restaurants, when to watch television or do homework.They organize their own social lives.They play no children games.They become adults before they're ready.
     Hollywood has always been the city of dreams.The kids in L.A live unreal lives where money, beauty, and pleasure are the only gods.Will children around the world soon start to think the same?Or do they already?
     ''Looks are very important in Hollywood.If you're good-looking, you'll go far.Everyone is in a rush to be an adult, to be going to clubs.It's not cool to be a kid.'' M. aged18
     ''Everyone thinks Hollywood is so glamorous, but I have news for you.It is really dangerous growing up in L.A.People have guns.Sometimes I think I'm going crazy.I' going to get out of here just as soon as I can". Z.aged18