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Getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame costs $85,000. The famous person whose name ends up in the sidewalk usually doesn't pay a cent of it. And no amount of money can buy you a star if a committee doesn't pick you first. About 200 people get nominated every year. A small committee, made up of people who already have stars, meets each June and chooses around two dozen. To even be in the running you need at least five years in your field, real professional achievement, a record of giving back to your community, and a signed promise that you will show up to the ceremony in person. Filing the application costs $275. Making the cut costs another $85,000. The person getting the star almost never pays that themselves. A movie studio or record label usually covers it, and the timing tends to line up with whatever new project they want people talking about. Plenty of huge names have skipped it anyway. Prince said no. So did Bruce Springsteen and Clint Eastwood. After Springsteen turned his down, the Walk started making people sign a form agreeing they actually want it before it gets announced. The $85,000 goes to a nonprofit that designs the star, lays it in the ground, pays for security on the day, and keeps the whole sidewalk clean and repaired for decades. No money comes from the city or taxpayers. The Walk pays for itself, with cash from the people it honors. Two dozen stars a year at $85,000 each adds up to around $2 million a year, all of it spent keeping the sidewalk running. And the whole thing started back in the 1950s as a marketing trick to pull tourists into Hollywood. It worked. Roughly 10 million people a year now show up to look at names on the ground. Miley Cyrus got the 2,845th star, awarded for her music, on a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard she used to visit as a kid. The committee picked her, but like every name in that pavement, the star only landed there once somebody paid the bill.

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