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...Mbala, a senior nurse at Kinshasa's Mama Yemo Hospital: "When this sickness hits you, you die in one week. Of course we are all afraid." And around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman-wondered nervously whether the disease would spread out of Africa...
...Black and White has set itself up as a rather large underdog heading into the women's Eastern Sprints this weekend at Lake Waramug in New Preston, Conn...
...deal showered benefits throughout Murdoch's empire. For Fox's existing affiliates, it proved a bonanza. Many are reporting increases in ratings and advertising revenue. More important, football gave the network new credibility. Fox's Preston Padden, who serves as head of affiliate relations and is Murdoch's point man in Washington, immediately began using the victory to lure affiliates allied with the other networks. He launched his campaign in January 1994 at a national meeting of TV executives, where he operated three presentation rooms to make his pitch, generating contacts that led, he says, to Fox's winning over...
What you get is a big, bustling, intermittently dippy melodrama that takes the Preston premise a few steps further. The virus becomes airborne and infects a California town. Now sneezing in a crowded theater can spread an instant epidemic. And a cute monkey may be the innocent agent of genocide...
...proficiently and at times artfully, as in two elaborate tracking shots that reveal various levels of biological contamination and the spread of the disease through hospital vents. Still, the whole operation looks musclebound. Outbreak is really about the lumbering, quasimilitary maneuvers that go into big-budget filmmaking. If Preston's virus story were a virus, the Outbreak team would aim an H-bomb at it. And the Hot Zone people would be sitting around apprehensively, waiting for it to develop...