Walk the Wire (Amos Decker series, 6)

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Petit briefly headlined with the Ringling Brothers Circus, but preferred staging his own performances. During his stint with the circus and a practice walk, he suffered his only fall, from 45 feet (14m), breaking several ribs. He says he has never fallen during a performance. "If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it." [14] high-wire performance on an inclined cable linking the Jewish and Arab quarters for opening of Israel Festival under Jerusalemite Mayor Teddy Kollek spectacular walk– for an audience of 250,000– on an inclined 700-metre (2,300-foot) cable linking the Palais de Chaillot with the second story of the Eiffel Tower, commemorating the French Bicentennial and anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, under Parisian Mayor Jacques Chirac

The documentary film Man on Wire (2008), by UK director James Marsh, is about Petit and his 1974 WTC performance. It won both the World Cinema Jury and Audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival 2008. It combines historical footage with re-enactment and has the spirit of a heist film. It won awards at the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2008. On stage with Marsh to accept the Oscar award, Petit made a coin vanish in his hands while thanking the Academy "for believing in magic". He balanced the Oscar by its head on his chin to cheers from the audience. [13] historic high-wire walk on an inclined cable to celebrate the city's 1,200th anniversary, viewed by 500,000 spectators and the subject of a live, nationally broadcast television special inclined walk, fourteen stories high, for the television talk show the Late Show with David Letterman (performed regularly since 1993) Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers ( Roaring Brook Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-7613-1791-3a b To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers – Philippe Petit – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 27 June 2012. Heller, Sabine (10 May 2010). "Philippe Petit, Man On Wire: "I'm Afraid of Animals With Too Many Legs or No Legs at All" ". Huffington Post.

Mason, Anthony (3 February 2009). "The Great Feat Of Philippe Petit, CBS Evening News: Talking With The Man Who Walked The Twin Towers". CBS. British single certifications – Imagine Dragons – Walking the Wire". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 16 June 2023.Man On Wire (Re-Wire)". YouTube. 7 August 1974. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021 . Retrieved 27 June 2012. Edward Suzuki Profile". Edward.net. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012 . Retrieved 27 June 2012. a b c Lichtenstein, Grace (8 August 1974). "Stuntman, Eluding Guards, Walks a Tightrope Between Trade Center Towers". The New York Times . Retrieved 18 April 2008. Combining the cunning of a second-story man with the nerve of an Evel Knievel, a French high-wire artist sneaked past guards at the World Trade center, ran a cable between the tops of its twin towers and tightrope-walked across it yesterday morning. Philippe Petit, Traité du funambulisme, Preface by Paul Auster, (Arles: Actus Sud, 1997), ISBN 2-226-04123-0, (in French / en français)

IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201726 into search. Retrieved July 4, 2017. We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. Petit conceived his "coup" when he was 18, when he first read about the proposed construction of the Twin Towers and saw drawings of the project in a magazine he read in 1968 while sitting at a dentist's office. [5] Petit was seized by the idea of performing there, and began collecting articles on the Towers whenever he could. Angus K. Gillespie, Twin Towers: the Life of New York City's World Trade Center ( Rutgers University Press, 1999) ISBN 978-0-8135-2742-0

Petit, Philippe (4 September 2002). To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers – Philippe Petit – Google Books. p.206. ISBN 9781429921862 . Retrieved 22 January 2023. The Low Anthem's song, "Boeing 737", from their 2011 album Smart Flesh, refers to Petit's Twin Towers walk. [25] Japan's first high-wire performance, to celebrate the opening of the Plaza Mikado building in Tokyo's Akasaka district [20] [21]

Among those who have associated with some of his projects are such artists as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Werner Herzog, Annie Leibovitz, Miloš Forman, Volker Schlöndorff, Twyla Tharp, Peter Beard, Marcel Marceau, Paul Auster, Paul Winter, Debra Winger, Robin Williams and Sting. [ citation needed] Lichtenstein, Grace (8 August 1974). "Stuntman, Eluding Guards, Walks a Tightrope Between Trade Center Towers". The New York Times . Retrieved 27 October 2023. kingkongphoto123 (22 February 2009). "My hero Phillipe Petit wins Oscar". YouTube. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021 . Retrieved 27 June 2012. Petit has made dozens of public high-wire performances in his career. For example, in 1986 he re-enacted the crossing of the Niagara River by Blondin for an IMAX film. In 1989, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, mayor Jacques Chirac invited him to walk an inclined wire strung from the ground at the Place du Trocadéro to the second level of the Eiffel Tower, crossing the Seine. Documentary of the rigging and artistic preparations for Historischer Hochseillauf, Hessischer Rundfunk TelevisionIn planning for the Twin Towers walk, Petit had to learn how to accommodate issues such as the swaying of the high towers due to wind, which was part of their design; effects of wind and weather on the wire at that height, how to rig a 200ft (61m) steel cable across the 138ft (42m) gap between the towers (at a height of 1,368ft (417m)), and how to gain entry with his collaborators, first to scope out the conditions and lastly to stage the project. [2] They had to bring heavy equipment to the rooftops. He traveled to New York on numerous occasions to make first-hand observations. [1] Working from the ID of an American who worked in the building, Petit made fake identification cards for himself and his collaborators (claiming they were contractors who were installing an electrified fence on the roof) to gain access to the buildings. Prior to this, Petit had carefully observed the clothes worn by construction workers and the kinds of tools they carried. He also took note of the clothing of office workers so that some of his collaborators could pose as white-collar workers. He observed what time the workers arrived and left, so he could determine when he would have roof access. The song, "Sleepwalking," by Danish composer Ste van Holm is a tribute to Petit's World Trade Center walk. [24]