Word: films
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...home of a neighbor, who then called police. Priklopil committed suicide by throwing himself under a train hours later. Three years after the ordeal ended, Kampusch has become a celebrity in Austria. The 21-year-old has hosted her own talk show and has been hounded by film crews desperate to tell her story. She reportedly bought the home where she was held captive to protect it from being torn down, but she lives in an apartment in Vienna where she's still trying to adjust to normal life and come to terms with her past. (See a brief history...
...Sundance Film Festival, held every year in Park City, Utah, has seen its share of celluloid villains. But when actor Robert Redford formally kicked off this year's fest on Jan. 21, he targeted Sundance's latest enemy: Paris Hilton...
These roots are sunk deep in two soils: a love for independent film and a lack of money. The festival, then called the U.S. Film Festival, began in Salt Lake City in 1978 as a way for founders Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle and Cirina Hampton Catania to attract more filmmakers to Utah. Redford was its first board chairman. The inaugural event focused on retrospectives of classic American films, with a few awards given to new works. It was moderately successful, with long lines for screenings and a few high-profile panelists like actress Cicely Tyson, but the organizers were...
...festival changed titles frequently - from the U.S. Film Festival to the Utah/U.S. Film Festival to the United States Film & Video Festival to the Sundance/United States Film Festival to, finally, Sundance. The last two changes came about after Redford's Sundance Institute took over the festival in 1985. Redford, who owned property in Utah's Wasatch mountains, named the organization after his character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; beyond the festival, it provides resources for filmmakers, film-music composers and playwrights through labs and conferences. Though it was relatively successful before, the Sundance takeover pushed the festival into...
...multiple Grammy-award winning artist launched a solo career with his debut album "Justified," which sold more than 7 million copies. He then came out with his second solo album "FutureSex/LoveSounds" in 2006. Timberlake shifted into the film business as well, acting in movies such as "Alpha...