EVANSVILLE – David Emge got a strange offer: would you like to fight off a bunch of zombies in a shopping mall?
The Evansville native naturally jumped at the chance. He’d studied acting at the University of Evansville, but was working as a chef in New York by the late ’70s.
Now he was getting a call to star in “Dawn of the Dead”: George A. Romero’s first zombie flick since the director basically invented the genre with “Night of the Living Dead.”…