So I'm watching You've Got Mail, and let me tell you how freaky it is to watch that movie. Literally, all the places we go to in our lives are right there in the movie. It's my understanding that Fox Books actually opens on 72nd and Broadway and the Shop Around The Corner is very near that. But for some reason, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan actually seem to prefer to hang out in the 80s. Their Starbucks is on 81st Street (right where Kathy parks her car), and Zabars is actually on the corner of 80th and Broadway. We live on 80th and Amsterdam (the street over from Broadway).

And of course, there's Cafe Lalo where they'll meet... a few streets up from us (I believe it's 83rd and Amsterdam).

And that's all neat, but that's not what inspired me to write this weblog today. At the beginning of the movie, there is a computerized map of the entire island. Kathy tells me that in the original, the towers were a part of the computerized map. In this version, they're not there.

Maybe it's just me, but it really bothers me to see that. I really don't like the fact that they would take them out as if they didn't exist. If you made a movie in New York City prior to September 11th, you keep the towers IN the movie.

Take for instance Die Hard With A Vengeance. They made it prior to the towers coming down, and they kept them in the movie. They SHOULD be in the movie. Our pictures of those towers should be our memorial of them.

I understand the sight of those towers brings back bad memories of things that happened on September 11th for many people, but to cut them out is to cut out a piece of history... and in my opinion, that's just not acceptable.