Sarah Boxer examines the role of the World Trade Center towers in the movies.
"These days the briefest sight of them on the big screen can take your breath away. But up to Sept. 10 the World Trade Center towers were nothing to get wrought up about.On the screen they were dreary, uninviting, vacuous masses: the part of the New York least like New York"
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
FULL STORY: In Films, Twin Towers Had No Star Power

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