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Wire in the blood

In 1974, a young Frenchman stepped out to tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. Now a film has been made of Philippe Petit�s gravity-defying feat. Stephen Phelan spoke to him about the �artistic crime of the century�

THE short life of New York's World Trade Center began with one spectacular crime and ended with another. Philippe Petit can only speak for the first.