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Posted AT 3:02 AM EDT on 16/05/08

An American innocent abroad, supersized

R.M. VAUGHAN

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Stuffing yourself with grotesque amounts of McDonald's food and watching your body turn to melted cheese (or "cheese food product") is a tough act to surpass. What's left, biting the heads off chickens? When documentary filmmaker - and documentary host/star - Morgan Spurlock began his latest project, he must have been haunted by the fact that his aforementioned gorging stunt, in the anti-McDonald's documentary Super Size Me, grossed more than $20-million (U.S.

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