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Music from Tragedy
If there’s one good thing that comes from major disasters and tragedies, it’s the response from the people in the entertainment community. In the 2 weeks since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf...
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George Clooney Is the Man
I wouldn’t go so far as to say he’s a role model or even someone I idolize. He’s not even a man-crush. But George Clooney is someone I respect and admire. It all started for me on September 2, 1997, a...
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I Saw United 93
I can’t say I was personally affected by the events of 9/11. Thankfully, I knew no one who was on any of the four planes, and even though I am originally from New York and know many people who live...
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Towering Achievement
Not that we needed reminding, but 9/11 was a really shitty day. In his new film World Trade Center, Oliver Stone revists the chaos, fear, hysteria, heartbreak, sadness, and destruction of that day, but...
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Five Years Later
I’ll say at the outset of this posting that I don’t have anything particularly revelatory or important to share about 9/11. But as today is the fifth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center...
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
In the years since 9/11 there have been only a handful of movies dealing directly with the subject. Of those, most have dealt with the heroism and the survivors. And of course, this leaves out a large...
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Happy Anniversary to Me
I don’t have anything particularly exciting to say about it, but today is September 10, the day before the sixth anniversary of 9/11. It might be just another day to you, but to me, it’s six years that...
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High Wire
On the morning of August 7, 1974, while many New Yorkers were hurrying to work, a lithe Frenchman named Philippe Petit was more than 100 stories above them, walking from the top of one of the Twin...
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Ten
Until I was 22, I was a New Yorker. The plan was that after I graduated from college, I would move back to New York, and get a job and an apartment in the city. But things don’t always go as planned....
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