PhiIippe shows sIeight ­ of - hand coin tricks to two children - street people like himself - who make their living selling flowers to theatre - goers in the Broadway theatre district. The children gave him a flower which he wears on his hat as he discusses with Barry Farber, in the radio studios of WOR, his intention, with or without permission, of rigging and walking a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center . This discussion was being broadcast over the public air­waves half a year before the actual event was to take place.