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Seeing the cramped, windowless basement where Natascha Kampusch was locked up for 8½ years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman...
...home when he got a phone call. While he was distracted, she dropped the vacuum cleaner and ran as fast as she could to the 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...
When Hollywood wants to extend the life of one of its movie tough guys, expand his audience and give him a dose of humiliation, it pairs him with a kid. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and John Travolta have all endured this mid-career ordeal. Now it's Jackie Chan's turn, in the PG-rated The Spy Next Door. At 55, he is well past his prime as the Hong Kong martial-arts sensation who wowed the world by doing all his own stunts in the Project A, Police Story, Armour of God and Drunken Master...
...throwing themselves at him, and what woman wouldn't?). Day-Lewis has wit, looks and a furious dedication to every role, but he's so tense and intense that he can't unleash the showman that has to be at the heart of any musical star. Smiling is an ordeal to him, singing an imposition, dancing a form of enforced calisthenics. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...their holiday plans. And these are the lucky ones. Many of the more than 2,000 people who were trapped for hours in the dark Channel Tunnel on Friday night complained that virtually nothing had been done to care for them or inform them of developments during their ordeal - even as some individuals suffered attacks of asthma and claustrophobia. (See pictures of Paris expanding...