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<-- back Today it's easily forgotten that most New Yorkers hated the Twin Towers, for  being so obviously out of proportion. The only serious attempt to reconcile the  public with their daunting presence in the city's skyline was undertaken in the  early morning of August 7, 1974 by a French high-wire artist named Philippe  Petit who, after six years of clandestine planning with a small crew of close friends, managed to gain access to both rooftops and secretly install a steel  cable, on which he crossed the void between the towers a total of eight times  before surrendering to the Police. Crowds of spectators gathered in the streets  of Downtown Manhattan, and even the authorities expressed their appreciation:  The District Attorney dropped all charges of disorderly conduct and criminal  trespass in exchange for a free performance in Central Park, and the Port  Authority of New York and New Jersey issued the artist with a lifetime pass to  the towers' observation deck. The ending, in case you don't already see it  coming: While his friends are expelled from the United States, Petit himself  becomes an instant celebrity, experiences a "magnificent explosion of pleasure"  at the hands of a groupie, and his girlfriend, who had watched him walk the  wire from 400 meters below, would not see him again for a rather long time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                             pirate cinema berlin                                                                 u kottbusser tor                                                       sunday, september 11, 9 pm                                                                      man on wire                                                                      james marsh                                                                    2008, 94 mins                                                                   12 seats, rsvp                                                           first come first serve                                                        location in separate mail --------------------------------------------------------------------------------          ()          >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org <-- back