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...allows the audience to understand why Iowans are becoming insanely violent zombies (for the record, the infected are not technically zombies, but ultimately there’s no difference). Too often screenwriters and directors are given free passes to avoid presenting any exposition, but here, director Breck Eisner (whose last wide-release was box-office bomb “Sahara”) treats the audience to a story with such plausibility and intelligence that it evokes a very realistic fear. The film is also co-written and produced by Romero, the godfather of zombie movies (“Night...
That's Act One of The Crazies, directed by Breck Eisner from a script by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright. The story fans out from its Anytown-Goes-Crazytown first half-hour into a besieged-heroes scenario, in which David, Judy and Russell are hemmed in both by the zombie-ish locals and the military in hazmat suits, who have come to contain the plague at the cost of Ogden Marsh's very existence. It's an efficient thriller, with scare weapons ranging from the primitive (a pitchfork) to the apocalyptic (an A bomb). The acting is only horror-film...
...editorial accompanying the study, Mark Eisner, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, commended the study but pointed out that cotinine only remains in saliva for two to three days after exposure to smoke, which is problematic as cognitive impairment in the elderly develops over many years. He called for further study into the effects of cumulative lifetime exposure to secondhand smoke to confirm the link...
...strongly worded conclusion, Eisner pointed out that some of the most important breakthroughs for human health have come from altering environmental factors and that even in an era of "groundbreaking science aimed at decoding the human genome...millions of people worldwide continue to die from passive smoking." Calling for further antismoking legislation, he argued that in the fight against illness and premature death, "we should not forget the 'low-tech' intervention of clearing the air we breathe...
...made a series of desperate phone calls to get rooms at Disneyland for her daughter's birthday the next day. "Two connecting rooms that have no theme and are not a suite?" she said disgustedly. "Well, we'll survive." She then had someone put in a call to Michael Eisner to theme and suite things up. This woman gets things done...