WHY CAN’T HOLLYWOOD get Washington, DC right? “I mean, yes, these are small things. But they are also really cheap things to get right. You could just, like, email someone who lives in Washington DC and ask them the name of a neighborhood where assistant professors of middle eastern studies might be found. You could contact the housing office at one of our area’s many fine military bases and ask them where their staff sergeants usually live, then let your fingers do the walking through the local real estate listings to see what the houses there look like. This is the sort of thing that, in my experience, interns can usually dig up in a few hours.”