# The economics of Pretty Woman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290 "2006-10-04T18:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290/21 "2006-10-05T21:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] She didn’t have 2 years of office experience, she had 2 years of ho experience. Seriously - if she interviewed for a reception job and was asked what she’d been doing to support herself previously what was she going to say? Public relations? Sales? [/QUOTE] Yes, what else is a ho’s job but public relations and sales? Maybe a bit of Human Resources could be claimed as well 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290/22 "2006-10-05T21:34:46Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] Yes, what else is a ho’s job but public relations and sales? Maybe a bit of Human Resources could be claimed as well 🙂 [/QUOTE] I suppose she could say that she was a chicken farmer. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290/23 "2006-10-05T21:49:10Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] She didn’t have 2 years of office experience, she had 2 years of ho experience. Seriously - if she interviewed for a reception job and was asked what she’d been doing to support herself previously what was she going to say? [/QUOTE] “Public relations sales.” If you say it slowly enough, they’ll assume there’s supposed to be a comma in there. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290/24 "2006-10-05T22:42:27Z")
[QUOTE=lisacurl] I hate this goddam movie. [/QUOTE] Especially the part where she gets all rightously indignant about being treated like a prostitute–but doesn’t actually offer to return the money she took for, you know, being a prostitute. It’s almost as creepy as Tom Hanks putting independent bookstore owner Meg Ryan out of business while pretending to be some anonymous e-mail correspondent. Meg, baby, that’s not courting behavior, it’s called stalking and it’s creepy. Even I know that much. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290/25 "2006-10-06T00:39:04Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] But if this was true she wouldn’t have bombed out of parking cars at wrestling and fast food gigs. She didn’t have 2 years of office experience, she had 2 years of ho experience. Seriously - if she interviewed for a reception job and was asked what she’d been doing to support herself previously what was she going to say? Public relations? Sales? [/QUOTE] That’s an easy one. “I was married and a homemaker. It didn’t work out.” (Tragic look.) A gimme. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290/26 "2006-10-06T03:39:25Z")
[QUOTE=mazinger\_z] Wasn’t she 23 when the movie was released? Surely, it didn’t sit on the shelf for 4 years? [/QUOTE] Sorry, I pulled that age out of my head, perhaps I should have mistrusted my always-fallible memory. My only cite is **Richard E Grant** ’s book _With Nails_, in which he mentions working in the studio next to where she’s filming _Hook_ as Tinkerbell. I swear he says in there how sad he is that she’s making a comeback film at the age of 24, which I would have thought would make her 19 or 20 in PW. But I see from IMDB they were only 1 year apart and she made 5 films in 1990/1991! So maybe she was 22 or 23. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-pretty-woman/375290.md?page=1)