'Fatal Contact' ''Bird Flu in America,should be quarantined

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NEWS, GOD have mercy on you; Sell your ABC stock.

Even the paid expert " consultants " on the show have labelled it B.S.

Geese and swans are painted as more dangerous than depleted uranium, scarier

than ..

Typical " scenes " include child wearing mask behind chain link fence, heroine

removing patient from respirator 'cause others with better chance of survival

need equipment, and bulldozers handling bodies of deceased. " Corpse management

will be critical factor " ---Bodies piling up so quickly it takes dump trucks to

haul them away. Barbed wire to keep whole neighborhoods quarantined.

Pls remember that Tamiflu (anise seed base) has virtually no benefit except to

war criminal's pocketbooks.

NOW, I'm getting scared; but not of the BIRD FLU.

From our group, " PLEASE..don't blindly line up because inoculation is

" mandatory " and you are threatened with quarantine. Instead, relax, wash your

hands, have some red wine and dark chocolate, be happy and take lots of

" C " ...and

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TELEVISION REVIEW

'Fatal Contact' should be quarantined

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By Gilbert, Globe Staff | May 9, 2006

I could start this review by toying ruthlessly with the title of ABC's new

TV movie, ''Fatal Contact. " Any time a word like ''fatal " appears in the name of

a big old stinker, it demands to be redeployed by the critic. As in: ''Contact "

is fatal. Or, more concisely, ''Fatal " is.

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But ''Fatal Contact, " which arrives with the thrilling subtitle ''Bird Flu in

America, " doesn't deserve to be used for fun. Folks, this is an excruciatingly

dull movie, and having a good time writing about it could mislead. This piece of

weakly constructed sensationalism, which premieres tonight at 8 on Channel 5, is

so unscary it almost serves as a kind of promo for the poultry industry. If the

avian flu is going to be this unbelievable and jerky, I choose chicken.

The idea of the ''Fatal Contact " script, seemingly written during morning

recess by Ron McGee of ''Atomic Twister " un-fame, is that the human spread of

the flu, known as H5N1, would be bad. Really bad. Really, really bad. So bad

that ''bad " doesn't even begin to explain just how bad it will be. And that's

the only idea here. An American businessman in Hong Kong returns home to

Virginia, coughs, and voila! The streets are mad with looting citizens, body

bags are being dumped into pits, neighborhoods are quarantined, and helpless old

ladies are starving to death.

And the phones are ringing. ''Fatal Contact " is one of those TV products that

resorts to having phones ring in the background to keep us alert. As the

epidemic gets worse, and as the movie gets worse, the ringing gets more

insistent.

The filmmakers, including director Pearce, are clearly hoping to scare

up easy Nielsen ratings for ABC during May sweeps. Even though the whole world

is coughing to death in ''Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America, " the subtitle

tries to give a particular sense of urgency to American viewers. Also meant to

stir Americans: a slight of the French, who are withholding a vaccine from the

United States just because, well, they're French. Of course, they're probably

giving it all to the Iraqis.

Not coughing in ''Fatal Contact " is y from ''Nip/Tuck, " who

plays Dr. Iris Varnack, a brilliant epidemic expert. Varnack is one of the few

authorities handling the crisis, flying all over tarnation and advising

important men that the flu will ''rip apart the fabric of society. " Alas, poor

is miscast. Her strength as an actress is worry, and yet here she is

meant to be thick-skinned and immune to hysteria. She puts on her best ''coolly

diagnostic " hat, adopting the restrained affect of Dr. Melfi in ''The Sopranos, "

but the hat is woefully ill-fitting. Cohen is also on the flu-fighting

team as a governor who's callous until a personal loss awakens his conscience.

''Fatal Contact " tries to blend emotion into its disaster scenario by showing

the tragedy and heroism of a few characters. But I use the word characters

loosely. The ordinary people in this movie make you wonder if the avian flu is

going to turn us into pod-people before it kills us. a Machado, so vivid

on ''Six Feet Under, " is wasted as a New York City nurse. Ann Cusack is the

personality-free widow of the dead businessman. You won't care about them. Maybe

that's why the movie doesn't have a proper conclusion so much as it just stops.

Apparently even the filmmakers didn't care by the end.

Gilbert can be reached at gilbert@....

© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.

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See also MIKE DUFFY'S TV TODAY: ABC's 'Fatal Contact' serves up a bucket of

hysterical fluff " But the only things dying in this hysteria-addled TV movie

are the brain cells of those who watch it. "

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AND ABC..ABC.com - Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America Fatal Contact:

Bird Flu in America follows an outbreak of an Avian Flu from its origins in a

Hong Kong market through its mutation into a virus ...

abc.go.com/movies/birdflu.html - 28k - May 7, 2006

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