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Charles Campion, deputy campaign chairman for the 1984 Walter Mondale campaign; Mary Anne Marsh, a commentator for Fox News; Charles Manning, senior advisor for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign; and Alex Castellanos, media consultant to seven U.S. presidential campaigns and current IOP fellow, spoke about the successes and failures of the two current presidential campaigns, as well...
...great, cheeky stunt - and probably one that will remain unduplicable in our age of ever-tightening "security" (which mainly seems to secure us from having much fun). But was it - as press material accompanying James Marsh's documentary, Man on Wire, calls it - "the artistic crime of the century...
...Marsh, in his director's statement, adds a certain amount of tosh about this being some sort of "mythic quest," in that Petit claims to have dreamed about doing his trick well before the Trade Center was built or even imagined. But Petit was a Paris street performer (and an authority on picking pockets) before he started walking wires, so one rather suspects that proposition...
...Marsh's film works best as what he calls a "heist" film - sort of an Ocean's 1350. Using interviews with Petit and his pals, what stills and stock footage as exist and a lot of recreations, he makes something reasonably suspenseful out of the logistics of this not-so-merry band gathering their equipment, rehearsing Petit's act and sneaking into the WTC. But the tightrope walk is a letdown; the conspirator who had a movie camera up there on the roof forgot to turn it on. So the big climax - man on very high wire (or should...
...British Roma researcher Adrian Marsh sees a darker agenda at work. "What we have is the most religious municipality in the country confronting what it deems to be a historically irreligious, immoral group," he says. "If they regenerated the community in a way that was inclusive, they'd have 3,000 extra votes, but they're not doing that. Why? Because they consider the Sulukule community unredeemable." Long-term solutions like allowing the Roma to set up legal music halls and generate income don't appeal to the Islamist-dominated local authority, because it doesn't want to promote that...