The two waterfall voids, marking the footprints of the towers, may provide a spectacularly powerful memorial, but they are surrounded by the clumsy debris of security sheds, ventilation shafts and a gargantuan concrete bunker for screening vehicles.
Richard Corey, executive officer of the California Air Resources Board, said: "On 25 September, the California Air Resources Board sent letters to all manufacturers letting them know we would be screening vehicles for potential defeat devices.
In April 2007, the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center, which was established by Mr. Pataki and Mr. Bloomberg, issued a thick internal assessment suggesting that an underground center for screening vehicles entering the site, the PATH station and the memorial museum could be more than four years behind schedule and over budget.
(The film she was making in Ireland, "When the Sky Falls," was her first starring screen vehicle. It was released this year in Britain and Ireland but has not been seen in the United States).
It all adds up to a fittingly bleak big-screen vehicle for the "anti-comedy" movement of which Turkington is a key proponent, and maybe that explains why the film proved an unappealing prospect for British distributors, whose idea of risk-taking big-screen comedy is a $20m major studio movie produced, but not necessarily directed, by Judd Apatow.
"This feels like a five-minute sketch that's outstayed its welcome," grumbled a journalist sitting next to me at SXSW's "work in progress" screening of Keanu, the first big-screen vehicle for Comedy Central sensations Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
It's hardly surprising: the stylish absurdity of Three Kings provides him with easily his best screen vehicle since his debut, John Singleton's mordant 1989 gang drama, Boyz N The Hood (although, to be honest, the likes of Anaconda don't offer much competition).
Modeling results show that factors such as odometer reading, model year, vehicle make, as well as the presence of emissions control systems are significant factors in predicting the likelihood that a screened vehicle will test as a failed or a gross polluting vehicle.
Ever since the foul-mouthed, fourth-wall-breaking "Merc With a Mouth" was introduced to the comics world in 1991, fans have been itching for the anarchic antihero to get his own big-screen vehicle.
The Dictator is a completely different proposition from its star's last two big-screen vehicles.
