It Had to Happen: 9/11 Finally Goes Schlock Rock

With no rational explanation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to explain the sudden collapse of WTC 1, 2 and 7 Greenwich Village now attempts to schlock it all away

NYTIMES Aug 2010 | There have been songs about Sept. 11, 2001, and there have been movies, and so it has always just been a matter of time—8 years and 51 weeks, it turns out—before New York learned whether it is ready for September 11: The Rock Musical.

Its actual title is “Clear Blue Tuesday,” a film opening at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village on Friday. Its cinematic forebears are “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “Moulin Rouge” and the adaptation of “Rent,” and its backers hope they have accidentally happened into the slipstream of “Glee,” a show that did not yet exist during…

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