In 2005, Disney released a Vin Diesel vehicle. Unfortunately, that vehicle was a hearse. Yet even two years on, The Pacifier's influence resonates, with the movie meaning different things to a host of different people. To all right-thinking cinema buffs: only the picture Daddy Day Care could have been. To Vin: the springboard into an uncredited cameo in The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift. And to Victoria Beckham: a not-even-halfway plausible excuse for avoiding a recurrence of her chronic "personnel problems".
"I watched the film that Vin Diesel starred in as a male nanny and just loved it," madam tells the Daily Express, "and thought that men can be as good a nanny as women. I wouldn't mind having a man as a nanny."
Mm. As someone who has suffered glitches with the hired help before, Victoria finally seems ready to institute an aggressive positive discrimination policy in the workplace that is her home, with the roles traditionally filled by young females now taken by gruff, balding Vin Diesel types - or even Vin Diesel: it's not like he's busy - a development sure to please her husband, whose attempts to break down the Remains of the Day-style barriers between himself and his employees have been so serially misunderstood.
