Philippe Petit plans US high-wire walks

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Philippe Petit is planning a series of high-wire walks next fall around the United States.

The 59-year-old says they ll include midtown Manhattan, and will promote literacy. He s keeping mum about other details.

Secrecy also preceded Petit s 1974 walk between the World Trade Center towers. A documentary about it, Man on Wire, won an Oscar.

Petit has been an artist-in-residence at Manhattan s Cathedral of St. John the Divine since 1982. He keeps a practice wire strung high inside a hall there.

He s also braved a wobbly ladder to reach cathedral chandeliers.

Now you know how many wire walkers it takes to change a light bulb, jokes Petit. -AP

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