On a Tightrope singer. One of them however, feels he is simply too small to be good at anything. Eventually, even the one judged most talented at tightrope walking, and the one who dreams of a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for tightrope walking, is let go by the unscrupulous coach who seems only interested in money. One year later, a different coach comes to the orphanage. Through love and kindness, he turns the children's initial failure at tightrope walking into success. The film culminates with their performance on a high wire - without a safety net - in front
Word on a Wing Word on a Wing "Word on a Wing" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie in 1975 for the "Station to Station" album, where it appears as the closing track of the LP's first side. Bowie admits that the song was written out of a coke-addled spiritual despair that he experienced while filming the movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth". In 1980 Bowie spoke of the song to NME, claiming "There were days of such psychological terror when making the Roeg film that I nearly started to approach my reborn, born again thing. It was the first