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Philippe Petit
French performer and high-wire artist, who gained international fame when he did a high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in New York in 1974, a stunt which took 6 years in planning. Two documentaries have been made about him, High Wire (1984), and Man on Wire (2008). He was born in 1949.
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