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television when he directed an episode of “The X-
Files.” He worked on the episode while the show was
still being filmed in Canada.
I Coulter said he gained experience from “The X-
Files,” but ran into one minor problem:
I “Dealing with David Duchovny,” he said. “He is
a very high-maintenance actor.”
I Coulter said Duchovny was not completely de
voted to the show at the time of the film shooting.
| “Fie had done it so much and he acted like he
'wished he wasn’t there,” Coulter said.
This specific episode was actually the next to last
episode shot in Vancouver before the show moved to
Los Angeles.
Coulter said Duchovny’s actions were probably
related to the coming move.
“I think he literally wanted to be in L.A.,” he said.
The opposite was true for Gillian Anderson,
Coulter said.
“She was completely there and fully focused,” he said.
The Golden Globe Awards, which were presented
live last week, awarded Coulter and the other contrib
utors to HBO’s “The Sopranos.” Coulter said even
though he has worked for television and film, the Globe
awards have added a great deal of work to his desk.
“It puts me in a very fortunate position,” he said.
“I am the same director I was years ago, but the vic
tory gives you the credibility to get work.”
Coulter has worked his own way up the ladder
of Hollywood success, demonstrating to people
that self-initiation and -determination are the key
to success.
For the future directors and producers who might
want to be successful, he quickly advised to make a
film and be educated.
“Study all the great films, don’t stop with think
ing Titanic is a great film,” he said.
Coulter will speak about his career at MSC Film
Society’s “Everything Counts” at Rudder Theater at
7 p.m. tonight. Contact MSC Film Society for more
information.
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er to understanding why some people who
drink alcohol become lightheaded and
pass out when they try to stand up.
Hj Two or three beers is enough to impair
the body’s natural ability to maintain a
steady blood pressure, according to a new
study believed to be the first to explain the
cardiovascular effects of drinking.
; The study published Tuesday in Circu
lation, an American Heart Association
journal, found that subjects who consumed
alcohol had wider blood vessels and low
er blood pressure than those who did not.
, That makes it more difficult for the body
to pump fresh blood to the brain, said Dr.
Virend K. Somers, a co-author of the study.
A As a result, drinkers who suddenly
stood up tended often felt lightheaded and
sometimes fainted, he said.
| “Alcohol suppresses this feedback
mechanism,” Somers, a cardiologist at the
Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, said. “But
we’re not sure why. Either the alcohol
blunts the signal from the brain to the
blood vessel, or the signal is okay and the
alcohol is preventing the blood vessel from
■spending to that nerve signal.”
f Dr. Richard Lange, professor of inter
nal medicine at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas,
said the new research was the first to define
why fainting may occur after drinking.
“It’s been described, but has never been
explored as to what the mechanism is. That’s
the major value of this study,” he said.
“[Fainting after
drinking] has been
described, but has
never been
explored ... . ”
— Dr. Richard Lange
Professor of Internal Medicine
Lange said previous studies used low
er doses of alcohol on test subjects, giving
mixed results. Somers and his colleagues
used larger doses of alcohol, giving a clear
er picture into the process.
“It’s more than just being inebriated.
This explains in a very mechanical fashion
on how alcohol can cause someone’s
blood pressure to fall,” Lange said.
The 1999 study was conducted by the
University of Iowa College of Medicine in
Iowa City, Iowa, and the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn. It tested the blood pres
sure of 18 healthy men and one woman av
eraging 26 years old. They were tested be
fore and after drinking the equivalent of
two to three beers. Scientists simulated the
gravitational stress of standing up with a
special machine that reduced the pressure
of their lower bodies.
During the alcohol-free session, the test
participants’ blood pressure was normal,
but it dropped after the drinks. Somers said
none of the subjects passed out during the
study, but several became lightheaded.
Somers said the study also showed that
individuals prone to lightheadedness, loke-
diaetics and the elderly,could have their
conditions worsened by alcohol.
“We need to see if the amount of al
cohol has any direct affect on the degree of
falling blood pressure,” he said. “ From the
figures we saw in the people in our test
subjects, a lot more alcohol was needed to
make them pass out. But we’re not sure if
they would have passed out because the re
flex mechanism was affected.”
Somers said the average person should
not worry he or she will pass out after having
a drink or two. And drinking while standing
up will not solve the problem, because the
body would still be subject to the same drops
in blood pressure due to the alcohol, he said.
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