Man on Wire Hero Will Teach You Tightrope Walking for $1,200

Philippe Petit, the tightrope walker whose 1974 escapades between the World Trade Center towers were chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary Man on Wire, this week taught his first-ever class of students in New York City. For the low, low price of $1,200, pupils received two days of instruction on balance, poise, and, finally, traversing a seven-foot-high wire in security harnesses. Alas, learning to Oscar-balance on one's chin is an even more prohibitively expensive lesson reserved for the advanced class. [NYT]