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apartment tower on Manhattan's

intensely crowded Upper East Side,
of the building
apparently became displeased with
the racket. "We were shooting the
scene on Lois Lane's
balcony [with
Christopher Reeve and Margot
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out the entire penthouse level, but
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with

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The helicopter-intensive film
Conspiracy Theory contains a scene
in which men rappel down from a
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park, but the shot almost didn't
happen because of safety concerns.
"It took months to get permission to
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down the surrounding streets from 6
to 11 p.m. on a
Saturday night, and
Cerullo flew the helicopter as the
stunt people rappelled down to the
park. "We were supposed to have a
camera 'copter as well, but we had
such a hard time getting permission
for one ship [that the scene was
covered with ground-to-air filming
only]," he says.
Cerullo often pilots heli¬
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must assume

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