The Salt Lake Tribune -- 'Seven Days' takes a passionate, meaningful look back at 9-11



By Verne Gay

Newsday



The shrinks tell us remembering is a cleansing act, or at least a clarifying one. But who, really, wants to remember the seven days that fell in the middle of September two years ago? Not just the monumental Tuesday, but maybe the Wednesday, or the following Friday and Sunday, too? Ask yourself this before settling in to watch 'Seven Days in September,' the film airing on A&E tonight at 7 p.m.

Nevertheless, there was one man who believed -- passionately -- that seven days felt about right for a film on 9-11 and his name is Steve Rosenbaum. He is a New York-based documentary producer, founder and chief of Camera Planet (and, incidentally, a consultant on Al Gore's proposed cable news network). His particular ephiphany came in the midst of a long-delayed hot shower a few days after Sept. 11, 2001.

'I had basically gone without sleep and went home on the third day and remember standing in the shower and thinking, quite clearly,' he recalls, 'that 'no one is ever going to send you an engraved invitation to do something meaningful.' ' Rosenbaum decided to do something meaningful, and the result is 'Seven Days.'