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...Kampusch finally escaped in 2006. She was cleaning Priklopil's car in the driveway of the 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...
...playwrights through labs and conferences. Though it was relatively successful before, the Sundance takeover pushed the festival into the public eye, drawing more and more people each year, expanding its awards categories and gaining significant industry and press attention. (See the top films of 2009 - if film critics ran the Oscars...
Decker joins Galluccio’s chief of staff Sal DiDomenico, Timothy R. Flaherty—who ran against Galluccio for the Senate in 2007—Michael J. Albano of Chelsea, and Daniel C. Hill of Charleston in the senate race...
...five-minute standoff they would lose, firing their AK-47s at a gunman on the other side of the checkpoint. My driver slammed on the brakes, put the car into reverse and wove around cars, people and concrete barriers, right up to the entrance of the hotel. We then ran into the lobby, where a handful of workers and guests were standing as the gunfire continued outside. (See how close Iraq came to total chaos...
...also-ran sweepstakes, the debut of Legion edged out another battle of angels and devils, The Book of Eli, $18.2 million to $17 million. The Tooth Fairy, a PG comedy starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson as a killer hockey player consigned to putting cash under kids' pillows, finished a close fourth with $14.5 million. The other new release, Extraordinary Measures, with Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, earned less than half that. This true-life story, of a father's quest to find a treatment for his two dying children, was the first theatrical feature from CBS Films. Audiences took...