Where's the 9/11 Film?

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.

"No one wants to seem like an ambulance chaser, so they do it on the down low," says director Spike Lee. CBS has announced a TV movie...

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