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Article: Mike Myers' latest spoof, "The Love Guru," hitting 'ohm'
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- March 28, 2008
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As the people of Kazakhstan know all too well, mockery of culture and religion seems to be kosher in Hollywood, under the following conditions:
The humor must be so over-the-top, so beyond reality, that it could never be misconstrued as mean-spirited. That, and the targeted groups cannot be large enough, loud enough or organized enough so that their hurt feelings make an impact at the box office.
Just ask Borat. Though Kazakhs complained that their country and customs were grossly misrepresented in "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," the film was a $128 million (euro81 million) domestic success _ among the ...