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A CHANCE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN BLAINE AND PETIT

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in Filmmaking
on Mar 6, 2009

Philippe Petit’s brief bit of coin sleight-of-hand and Oscar chin-balancing when James Marsh’s Man on Wire won the Oscar was one of the more entertaining moments at this year’s Academy Awards. Now, on his website, New York magician David Blaine posts a video of a kind of magical face-off that occurred when he ran into the French tightrope-walker on the street.

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