Word: wernicke
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...creators of Zombieland - writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and director Ruben Fleischer, all of whom have worked for MTV - know this. They start with a premise that sounds like a horror-comedy remake of National Lampoon's Vacation. In a world where a pandemic has fatally infected virtually everyone, an improvised family of four drives cross-country to find refuge in a reputedly zombie-free California amusement park. Then the filmmakers bend this into a coming-of-age love-story road-movie quest epic. With many sharp laughs. And characters rich enough to occupy any movie that doesn...
Except for a therapeutic-trashing-of-a-tchotchke-store scene the movie could have done without, Zombieland is an exhilarating ride, start to finish. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg set a high bar for this subgenre with Shaun of the Dead, but Reese, Wernick and Fleischer may have trumped them. This isn't just a good zombie comedy. It's a damn fine movie, period. And that's high praise, coming from a vampire...
...Fest and call their town (pop. 928) the "future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk." So how's this for irony: it was WILLIAM SHATNER who made them look foolish. For a new reality show called Invasion Iowa, scheduled to air on Spike TV in February, executive producers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (the team responsible for Joe Schmo) asked Shatner to move into Riverside with a fake entourage and crew and pretend to shoot a sci-fi movie. Townsfolk were hired for the bogus production. Throughout the eight-day shoot, Shatner played an increasingly absurd, over-the-top version...
Probing Phoebe's IRS tax filings, they found that CEO Joel Wernick was paid $707,000 (including benefits) in Phoebe's 2002 fiscal year and had an interest-free loan from the hospital for $85,300. The filings also showed that Phoebe had more than $300 million in net assets and reported offshore entities in the Cayman Islands worth some $15.5 million. At the same time, Phoebe had sued citizens in the Dougherty County area, one of the nation's poorest, hundreds of times over a five-year span, making the hospital one of the region's most litigious parties...
...investment and insurance vehicles that have saved the hospital money, officials say. On its website, Phoebe notes that it spends $46.6 million on charity care, and officials stress that patients are informed by hospital signs and other means that they may be eligible for free or discounted care. CEO Wernick, who repaid the loan, calls the class action against Phoebe frivolous. It implies hospitals "are indifferent to the plight of the uninsured," Wernick continues. "That's just not the case...