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...somewhere near the Austrian border--but how near? Soldiers marched by, dogs barked, flares lit the night. Then a voice cried out, in Hungarian, the words paralyzing him with fear: "Who is there?" Even 40 years later, as he laughs at the memory, his eyes harden; he shifts his neck under his collar. Had the smuggler betrayed him? "We thought, 'Shit, this is it.'" The man shouted again. Now at the limits of his courage, the boy finally answered: "Where are we?" "Austria," came the reply. The relief poured cool as the rain. Andras Grof, a name he would later...
...could make circumstantial connections all day, but the fact is that in key aspects of character and plot, Interview With the Vampire and The Wings of the Dove spin strikingly similar stories. Sure, their twinship isn't biting anyone's neck just yet. Still, the similarities are telling and important, and all the more interesting for the fact that they are unlikely to receive much comment or notice...
Eight hours later, however, the 37-year-old lead vocalist of the once top-selling band INXS was found naked and dead, hanging by his neck from a belt attached to the self-closing mechanism of the door to his hotel room. Hutchence, a new father about to embark with his band on their 20th-anniversary tour last Tuesday, had apparently killed himself, a fact that many close to him are finding almost incomprehensible. "Everyone felt that if someone had called us and said, 'Michael overdosed,' we would have said, 'Jesus, we saw that coming 10 years ago,'" explained...
TRUE. Or at least it seemed like it. We froze our butts off. I remember spending many days up to my neck in what felt like ice water. And if there had been any other way to do it, believe me, we would have...
According to an FBI affidavit, her hairdresser, Lisa D'Amico, said Fahey was "nervous and frightened that [Capano] might harm her." D'Amico said Fahey once jumped out of Capano's car after he grabbed her neck when she tried to end the affair. A close friend of Fahey's, Kim Horstman, said that after another break-up attempt, Capano took back some of the gifts he had lavished on Fahey, saying, "No man is going to watch the TV that I gave you or see you in the dresses I gave you." Fahey's therapist at the time...