The high-wire artist, famous for his Twin Towers walk, joins the tourists at Edge before a tightrope walk inside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bob Morris writes.
Fifty years ago this month, Petit walked on a steel cable strung between the towers of the World Trade Center. To mark the anniversary, he is planning to walk a tightrope this week inside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. “Retirement is for others,” said Petit, who, at seventy-four, is taut and compact. Waiting for an elevator at Hudson Yards, he wore white trousers and a pressed sherbet-orange shirt that matched his full head of hair.
He declined offers to shill for Burger King and Sweet’N Low. When bookers for Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” called, he asked, “Johnny who?” He turned down a film offer from Werner Herzog and another from Miloš Forman, who wanted to cast him in “Hair.” He regrets that one. “I told him if he wanted a circus performer to look for a juggler in the Yellow Pages,” Petit said. He ended up taking a relatively modest job with Ringling Bros.
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