I know a lot of people, particularly women, who absolutely adore the movie "Pretty Woman". 

     You remember the film?  It was a classic "Cinderella" story where a prostitute played by Julia Roberts meets and falls in love with billionaire Richard Gere.  At the end, the two drive off into the sunset and presumably live happily ever after.

     As a movie, "Pretty Woman" is moderately entertaining.  However "Pretty Woman" is to prostitution like a frying pan is to the space shuttle.  In other words, the two have no connection.

     In highlighting efforts by law enforcement to crack down on prostitution, The Knoxville News just published the mug shots of the some of the most prolific prostitutes in Knox County, Tennessee.  There's not too many Julia Roberts look-alikes in this bunch.  It would seem that prostitution is hardly the glamorous endeavor that Hollywood painted it as.

      Gee, a case where life doesn't imitate art.  It doesn't seem like being a prostitute is quite the path to happiness that  the conclusion of "Pretty Woman'" implied it was.  Who could have guessed?