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...should be proud, then, that while ground zero is still being rebuilt, pop culture emerged with barely a dent. In the fifth year after 9/11, it's revisiting the attacks head-on. Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (see review, next page) digs into the rubble of the Twin Towers, telling the story of two police officers who were among the last survivors to be pulled out. United 93 grossed about $43 million worldwide, a respectable sum for a $15 million movie about the passengers who brought down a plane before hijackers could crash it. In January the cable movie...
...problem is that there's almost no place to go. Poor Beirut airport, recently rebuilt, was famously attacked in 1968, when Israeli commandos blew up 13 Lebanese civilian planes as they sat on the tarmac. This time the attack came in slow motion: first the runways, then the fuel-storage tanks, then the runways again, then the terminals...
...Beirut airport is a favorite target of the Israelis: they struck it in 1996, 1993 and most famously in 1968, when Israeli commandos blew up 13 Middle East Airlines planes in retaliation for an attack in Athens by Palestinians. The airport, recently rebuilt during a Beirut reconstruction plan led by the late Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, is a lifeblood of Lebanon's postwar recovery. "Tourism in Lebanon is finished if this continues," Joseph Sarkis, Lebanon's Minister of Tourism...
...Cromartie High School, the first of five Japanese NYAFF movies I saw, is director Yudai Yamaguchi?s take on a teen delinquent genre that goes back at least to the 1955 Blackboard Jungle. The setting: a high school with such a rotten history that it has been destroyed (and rebuilt) six times. Seven may be the charm, since one of the students is a decent kid: our hero, Kamiyama (dishy Takamasa Suga). In the first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair...
Homebuilders are eager to start reconstruction--some 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone need to be rebuilt--but supplies may be tight as the city is an import hub for cement and other building materials. Plywood will probably cost more for a while; after Hurricane Andrew, the price shot from...