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Philippe Petit could be immortal. It’s the only explanation for how someone could step onto a cable strung between the two towers of the World Trade Center — a plunge of 1,350 feet — and not ...
(If you haven’t seen the terrific documentary Man on Wire, do so immediately, if only for the description of how they strung the wire without anyone noticing what they were doing. Hint ...
A former Greeley man faces five counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering after police say he and a Parker woman schemed to defraud the Small Business Administration and lenders to ...
Philippe Petit will walk the Cathedral of St. John on 50th anniversary of WTC high-wire walk.Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Philippe Petit, the man who stunned the world by tightrope-walking ...
11, 2001, destroyed the towers. Since then, new generations learned about his accomplishment through the Academy Award-winning documentary “Man on Wire” (2008) and a children’s book ...
In an exclusive interview for SBS Movies, Man On Wire producer Simon Chinn answers a few questions for Kylie Boltin. I have read that you first heard Philippe Petit on the radio before seeking the ...
The 73-year-old Frenchman—the subject of Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire—has been arrested several times for his often-illegal stunts, which also include crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and ...
At one point in the show, while reflecting on the success of the Oscar-winning documentary “Man on Wire,” which chronicled his famous walk, Petit admitted that he handled success poorly ...
MINNEAPOLIS – A 53-year-old Burnsville man has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a scheme that cost an electronic manufacturing services company $1.2 million, according to United ...