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Hollywood after Sept. 11 seems to look a lot like Hollywood last summer, notwithstanding a few shots of the Twin Towers edited out of credit sequences. So where are the Sept. 11 movies? The Guys, an indie film about a journalist and a mourning fire fighter, is in the works, but big-time filmmakers and TV executives still seem cautious about bringing the tragedy to the screen, worried they will be accused of bad taste...
...Genelle Guzman-McMillan dead? Nearly everyone else who had not left the Twin Towers by 10:28 a.m. on Sept. 11 perished. Unlike those stranded on higher floors, Genelle, who worked for the Port Authority on the 64th floor of the north tower, could have left earlier, but she tarried, fearful and uncertain like so many others. She was still walking down stairway B when the building collapsed. Unlike so many others, she lived...
...Genelle is setting up her computer. A contracted clerical worker assigned to the Tunnels, Bridges, and Terminals Department, she has worked at the Twin Towers just nine months. The job, mostly data entry, doesn't inspire her much, and she rarely talks about it at home. She also took the position illegally--her nonimmigrant visitor's visa expired in 2000, making her eligible for deportation--so she keeps a lot to herself. Many of her relatives will discover only today that she works at the Trade Center...
...long time before New York City's Twin Towers were destroyed, many towers in my country were brought down by this same brand of perpetrators. They killed President Anwar Sadat, who initiated peace with Israel and liberalism in Egypt; they killed the Egyptian writer Farag Fouda, a defender of freedom and secularism; they stabbed our Nobel laureate, Naguib Mahfouz, when he was 82 years old, after discovering that 30 years earlier he had written a novel they considered the work of an infidel. They said they had not read the novel. Who told them it was sacrilegious? Someone living...
CHARGED. EVE HIBBITS, 31, for allegedly allowing her 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old twin sons to become severely sunburned at a county fair; with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment; in Brilliant, Ohio. Hibbits spent eight days in jail and was initially charged with three felony counts before doctors downgraded the children's diagnosis to first-degree burns...