'Cats' doc captures artistic stray in N.Y

We learn in Linda Hattendorf's touching and often beautiful documentary, "The Cats of Mirikitani," that on 9/11 [Jimmy Mirikitani], then 80, was living on the SoHo streets, fairly close to the World Trade Center, sleeping and painting near a Korean grocery store. When the twin towers...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Wilmington, Michael
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 06.04.2007
Subjects
Citizenship
Concentration camps
Hattendorf, Linda
Mirikitani, Jimmy
September 11 terrorist attacks-2001
World War II
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Summary:We learn in Linda Hattendorf's touching and often beautiful documentary, "The Cats of Mirikitani," that on 9/11 [Jimmy Mirikitani], then 80, was living on the SoHo streets, fairly close to the World Trade Center, sleeping and painting near a Korean grocery store. When the twin towers fell, toxic debris and smoke shrouded the neighborhood, plunging Jimmy into confusion and threatening his meager living quarters and huge art collection. Luckily, he found a savior and a safe harbor. Hattendorf, a young documentary editor, took him into her apartment and, troubled that he had no Social Security card or official record, began to organize his life, reclaim his past and look for a home of Jimmy's own.