Spider-Man will once again swoop into New York City and save its catastrophe-plagued citizenry. Though this time he'll be in nerdy, terrestrial Tobey Maguire form. The slim yet dough-ish actor is giving a 9/11 speech tonight, according to some leaked CNN documents. What exactly his qualifications are, other than having played a city-saving superhero in the motion pictures (he also played a teenage sex fiend in The Ice Storm, should he give speeches at teenage sex fiend conventions??), is sorta beyond us. But whatevs. Hopefully it will be stirring and sad and ultimately hopeful. Also issuing (strangely poetic) musings on this hallowed day is celebrity deejay and Lindsay Lohan clam digger Samantha Ronson:
waking up in nyc this morning 7 years later and it feels like just yesterday this city and our worlds were turned upside down.... never in my lifetime had I ever believed that I would see such horror- the kind that you see in documentaries set in far off places and read about in text books- never in my life had I ever thought that I would wake up and fall asleep afraid- watching things on television that felt like a film- walking through a city that felt like a war zone. there were army vehicles on houston street, barricades dividing neighbourhoods and lines around the block of people waiting to donate blood set in front of a backdrop of smoke filling a space where two of the largest buildings once stood. Two buildings that shaped one of the most famous skylines in this country, or in the world...... Seven years later and I will never forget. I don't really know what to say except to all those we lost we will never forget and never take for granted the sacrifices that you made.
Those thoughts are from her MySpace feelings blog. Actually pretty lucid! Lindsay offers up a simple: "I am in New York and I would like to remind everybody to take a moment today for those lost in tragedy that occurred on 9/11/01. thank you. xox L
