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'Man On Wire'

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Philippe Petit may be the only high-wire walker in history famous enough to have groupies. In 1974, the French street performer enlisted the help of several friends and random oddballs to undertake a death-defying and completely illegal stunt: walking between the quarter-mile-high World Trade Center towers. Petit's performance - part prank, part personal obsession and wholly a work of beauty - briefly...

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