The 2,500 five pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Streets in downtown Hollywood commemorate achievement in the entertainment industry. I include only two of them here – one honoring the actress Louise Rainer, who at 102 years of age is the oldest living Academy Award Winner. (She won a Best Actress Oscar for “The Great Ziegfeld” in 1936. She had to wait a long time for this star on Hollywood Boulevard – she dedicated it herself in 2011.) The other star in this image honors Red Foley, a country music artist. The stars symbolize fame, and I contrast them to a lone woman, photographed from behind as she waits for a bus. One must also assume that she, like most of us, will have no star in this sidewalk. By converting the image to black and I white, I remove all color and vibrancy from the scene, implying that fame is illusory, even in a place where 2,500 stars seem to make fame commonplace.