he wondered if following through with his promise to hire chris to come to los angeles and be his personal assistant would have toughened his brother up and leaned his soft midsection ; he wondered if chriss face , a reminder of home , would have kept him out of the skank of skid row , off of tmz , from the kids network sitcom to the steady , respectable income of an entertainment entrepreneur-slash-performer that you must become to stay in the hills .