Byline: HAP ERSTEIN Cox News Service
It is 1944 in the acclaimed film ``Saving Private Ryan,'' and Tom Hanks and his Army squad have risked their lives trudging across Europe in search of one woebegone GI. When they meet Pvt. James Ryan, he flashes such a gleaming, toothy grin that the audience starts reaching for its sunglasses.
Suddenly, the moment is about actor Matt Damon and his Hollywood cosmetic dentist, not the story Steven Spielberg wants to tell.
It happens time and again in the movies. Think of Anthony Hopkins in ``The Mask of Zorro,'' released from a squalid prison after two decades but sporting perfect white choppers. Think of Leonardo …
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