Angels with Dirty Faces Never Steal Anything Small Shake Hands With the Devil All previous entries. Ballplayers: Daddy-o, Papa, and a boy named Charlie Brown. Everyone and their brother has posted this already but last week the New York Times gave us a great interactive feature tracing the popularity of Netflix rentals by zip code.
Here's mine in Seattle, for example:. What do the above movies have in common? Most are smart, some are Oscar contenders, only a handful did well at the box office. But that's hardly news, is it? Not a speck of color on those maps. In fact you can guess which is the whitest or least-African-American city of the three based on these rentals. According to Netflix's maps? And that checks out. According to data, the African-American population in these cities are: 8. Quick quiz. Click on each map for its answer.
He still moves with more grace than any action star in Hollywood. But the story around him? One wonders which is the bigger fantasy: the international spy next door or the international supermodel with three kids next door. Bob would like to quit the biz and marry her. Smart man! The kids are the usual mix of Hollywood stereotypes and impossibilities.
Farren Madeline Carroll , verging on adolescence, wants to dress in short skirts and bare mid-riffs, and takes forever in the bathroom. But first Bob has to screw up making breakfast while the kids sit at the table and roll their eyes. Then he drives them to school while they roll their eyes and argue about who gets the front seat. Then he loses Nora at the mall and has to perform a Jackie Chanesque stunt to get her back.
Eventually he uses the tools of his trade to keep them in line, and he has heart-to-hearts with Farren and Ian, but they always get back to rolling their eyes. Which, of course, gets him noticed by the older girls at school. Because girls like preppy assholes from English, too, will always be a problem for Jackieβparticularly in comedies.
