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...culture. In 1994 Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction generated volumes of discussion about movie violence. In 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1--which made Pulp look like Toy Story--landed nearly as softly as villainess Lucy Liu did when she collapsed bloodily into the snow in its climax. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, involving a theory that Mary Magdalene may have been Jesus' wife and the mother of his child, intrigued readers and sold millions of copies, but it was ABC News that really took religious fire when it raised the same question in a prime-time special...
...Everything about me was round. I just felt like a snowman," says Dan Restione, 41, a Seattle radio producer whose makeover last summer took six weeks and could have cost him an estimated $80,000 if he'd had to pay for it. For that kind of money, Dan deserved bionic superpowers, but what he got--a slimmed-down torso, a more prominent chin, sculpted cheeks, a fuller hairline, and teeth as white as Aspen after a blizzard--made him feel like an "action hero," he says, and lifted him out of a multiyear depression that had followed a divorce...
...wife Ashley Zimmerman concurs. "You are now as fabulous on the outside as you are on the inside," she says. Dan wouldn't argue. He's a positive thinker now, full of can-do, upbeat mottoes and brimming over with assertive high spirits. The man whose favorite sayings used to be "Love is a joke" and "Sex is just friction" spends his time these days flirting and dancing. He sincerely believes that "your life is in your hands and you can make it better." His eyes, no longer obscured by thick glasses, thanks to LASIK surgery, are a striking bluish...
Although he has discarded his $10,000 hairpiece because the glue that attached it to his scalp kept peeling off and he still puffs Marlboros, Dan is on a roll. Some of the people around him feel run over, however, as he readily acknowledges. "People are sensitive to my changing," he says. Chief among them is his daughter Bonnie, 11, who thought of her old dad as a cuddly teddy bear and somehow doesn't trust his new svelte form and game-show-host good looks. Nor does she understand how she fits into her father's new romantic life...
...VINCI CODE. A key plot point in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, with 4.3 million copies in print, is that the Roman Catholic Church suppressed 80 alternative Gospels, several describing a physical relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene...